Cristopher Sanchez

I need you to just mash them into the ground, to sweep them, to just obliterate, rip out their hearts.

Yeah, I hope next Tuesday that we get to Miz versus Chris Sanchez.

Just as a baseball fan, you have to enjoy that matchup.

I don't know if your skipper is one that, since we clinched the division, you're still competing with the Dodgers because you want to be first place.

But you probably can't use them on the weekend, especially.

Well, who knows? That weekend lefty is Christopher Sanchez.

Yeah.

May not even pitch.

That's fantastic.

Real quick, back to the, just to confuse you even more, Cicchini.

So do we think Christopher Sanchez, I believe Christopher Sanchez pitches next week.

He's lined up for this Sunday.

That's a good thing.

Besides Zach Wheeler, that pitching staff has been a little bit, and Lizardo's hurt, and Christopher Sanchez has been meh of late.

So I think it's a nice little opportunity here for Ewing to show what he can do.

He's been batting.

Drew Asmussen, 18 and a half outs.

There's a lot of scary similarities to being the right-handed Christopher Sanchez.

Now, not in terms of pitch mix, but in terms of what the effectiveness is.

They get ahead in counts, at least in 2025 and the beginning of this season when Christopher Sanchez had, what, 50-plus innings without an inter-run allowed? Like, that was ridiculous, but...

You have Rasmussen, who does mix in a little bit of a change.

It's not nearly as good as Christopher Sanchez, but he's so effective.

Sub 95 pitches, back-to-back outings, and getting seven innings in the course of it.

I've been on the wrong side of him in terms of strikeouts in his last two.

Because y- you need Zach Wheeler in Wrigley.

That's the scenario here, is you need Christopher Sanchez and Zach Wheeler to carry this team in a wildcard round.

Um, whereas it was a luxury just a mere three days ago-

Yeah

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But fortunately that's, I don't think that's a problem the Phillies are gonna have to face because the Diamondbacks lost last night, so the, the, they do have a little bit of a cushion on the Diamondbacks.

Uh, I don't think that the playoffs are necessarily in danger, but it's why a game like last night was so important, especially after losing the Christopher Sanchez start to begin the DC series.

Like, if you went to Washington and you lost behind Sanchez and Wheeler after losing Luzardo to injury-

Wheeler comes out, he throws seven innings, only gives up four hits, no earn, walk one, struck out five.

And I guess the question now is, and I don't even know if it's a question, is Zach Wheeler the ace now of this staff? I mean, he used to be, but then the way Sanchez and Lizardo were pitching, Lizardo of recent, Sanchez pretty much to start the year for a few months, they were the one and two.

But now that Zach Wheeler, he might be all you got.

Because Lizardo, we don't know what's going to happen.

We don't know if Lizardo is going to be ready to pitch in October.

Christopher Sanchez has looked like a shell of himself as of late.

Is it even debatable, Nick? Zach Wheeler is the ace of the staff.

You agree? Yeah.

And he did it so well, it got him traded to the Yankees for four players at the deadline.

And, of course, Curtis Meade, way back when, when he was an A-ball, a player from Australia, was traded straight up for Christopher Sanchez, who went to the Phillies.

Who knew who that was going to turn out? But the Nationals got Curtis Meade at the end of spring training from the White Sox because they didn't have room for him on their roster.

And he was basically going to be a designated first-assignment player.

The point is that the

bullpen might, they might lose because the bullpen, regardless, the bats might not hit, but like Wheeler Sanchez, no, it's not the worst.

You know, you, that's still a strength of your team going in.

Theoretically.

That's fine.

But, you know.

Certainly coincidental, huh? Sanchez throws the complete game earlier in the year.

It starts to go a little bit downhill after that.