US EditionWheeler Strikes Out 10 as Phillies Beat Padres
- On July 1, 2025, the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 at Citizens Bank Park in the series opener.
- The Padres started Matt Waldron, who made his season debut after recovering from a left oblique strain, but allowed all four runs in 4⅓ innings.
- Phillies' Zack Wheeler pitched eight shutout innings, striking out 10 batters without issuing a walk, while defensive plays including a key catch by Jackson Merrill prevented Padres scoring.
- Nick Castellanos contributed a solo home run off Waldron in the fifth inning, extending the Phillies' lead to 4-0, and Bryce Harper returned from injury going 0-for-2 with a walk and hit by pitch.
- The Phillies improved to 50-35, maintaining NL East control, while the Padres dropped back-to-back games, suffered their sixth shutout, and await Tuesday's game to try to even the series.
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Phillies’ Zack Wheeler only getting better, shuts down Padres
PHILADELPHIA — Zack Wheeler struck out 10 in eight innings, Nick Castellanos homered and the Phillies won in Bryce Harper’s return to the lineup, 4-0 over the San Diego Padres on Monday night. Harper was hit by a pitch on the left foot, walked and lined into an unassisted double play as part of a 0-for-2 night in his first game since June 5. He returned from a nearly month-long layoff with right wrist inflammation to start at first base and bat …
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Wheeler strikes out 10 in 8 innings to lead Phillies past Padres 4-0
Zack Wheeler struck out 10 in eight innings, Nick Castellanos homered and the Philadelphia Phillies won in Bryce Harper’s return to the lineup, 4-0 over the San Diego Padres on Monday night.
Zack Wheeler, Phillies shut out Padres in series opener
PHILADELPHIA — The Phillies did not batter Matt Waldron. They just sort of ran him ragged, and his outing unraveled, as it can when knuckleballs are flittering in and out of the strike zone, off the catcher’s glove, occasionally bouncing far from the plate. In Waldron’s first start of the season, he allowed all of the Phillies’ runs in 4⅔ innings in what ended up a 4-0 loss for the Padres on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park. If Waldron wasn’t …
Zack Wheeler shoves, Phillies blank Padres 4-0 in Harper’s return
Welcome back, Bryce Harper but tonight at The Bank belonged to Zack Wheeler. On a hot Monday night in South Philly, the Phillies opened their homestand with a clinical 4-0 shutout of the Padres behind eight scoreless innings and 10 strikeouts from Wheeler, who continues to look every bit like a Cy Young contender. Zack Wheeler didn’t walk a batter and allowed just six hits over 103 pitches, picking up his eighth win of the year and wrapping up a…
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