Final Score: Phillies 7, Angels 2
The Philadelphia Phillies scored five runs in the bottom of the first inning, and that was more than enough Saturday to edge out Mike Trout, Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels.
While the five-run first made you think that the Phillies may put a double-digit number in the run category for the second evening in a row, they didn’t score again until the bottom of the eighth inning, when Johan Camargo plated J.T. Realmuto and Bryson Stott with an RBI single.
Disappearing offensively for large chunks of the game isn’t a strategy for consistent success, but it worked Saturday in large part because Zack Wheeler, Brad Hand, Seranthony Domínguez and Connor Brogdon limited the Angels to to just two runs, while striking out 11 batters.