Taijuan Walker held Boston to three hits in six innings of a 6-1 victory that busted the Phillies’ six-game losing skid.
Ten pitches into the game Sunday, Taijuan Walker thought he had recorded a strikeout on a dirt-diving splitter. Instead, home-plate umpire Charlie Ramos ruled that the batter fouled it off. Walker bounded off the mound, asking Ramos to check the ball for a marking.It’s early May, barely six weeks into Walker’s four-year, $72 million contract with the
After Ramos denied his appeal, Walker used his deceptive move to pick off Masataka Yoshida at first base. He didn’t allow another baserunner until Raimel Tapia’s two-out single in the fourth inning. Walker threw 85 pitches. More than half were splitters, which was by design after talking to pitching coach Caleb Cotham.
But the biggest development involved Walker, a mid-rotation starter who is in some ways the glue that holds the rest of the starting staff together.
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