Daily News | With a healthy Zack Wheeler and Seranthony Domínguez, Phillies would be in better shape than 2007
What will tomorrow bring? Hopefully Seranthony Domínguez. If he is as healthy as he has looked in his last two outings, the Phillies will have one of the more electric relievers in this year’s postseason field. Six up, six down, two strikeouts, 100 on the gun in high-leverage innings against the Nationals and the Marlins. Then again, those were his first two outings in nearly a month.
When the Phillies placed him on the injured list on Aug. 25, they labeled his injury as “forearm tendinitis” and described it as a precautionary move that might only cost him a couple of starts. But one of the more time-tested rules of thumb in baseball is that forearms are just elbows by another name. And Wheeler is a pitcher who missed 2½ years due to Tommy John surgery early in his career and then took nearly another full year to get back to his old level of performance.
If everything breaks right, the Phillies will enter this postseason with a much better chance at contending than they did the last time they snapped a comparable playoff drought. Back in 2007, they waited until the last day of the regular season to clinch and then faced the Rockies in the first round with the following rotation: 23-year-old Cole Hamels, 22-year-old Kyle Kendrick, 44-year-old Jamie Moyer. Needless to say, there was no second time through.
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