Todd Zolecki

This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki's Phillies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. PHILADELPHIA – The Phillies always expected to have one of the best rotations in baseball this season. They have pitched like it through the

PHILADELPHIA -- No. 1 prospect Andrew Painter is taking the next step toward a potential midsummer promotion to the big leagues.

PHILADELPHIA -- J.T. Realmuto didn’t know he cut his right thumb opening a water bottle in the eighth inning on Friday night until he threw a couple balls back to the pitcher in the ninth and noticed they had blood on them. Realmuto glued the cut shut, then handed the

This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki’s Phillies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox.

PHILADELPHIA -- This felt great. It felt great for Taijuan Walker, his teammates, his coaches, his manager and especially his mother. So much has happened to Walker in the past year. So much has been difficult. So, he screamed when he struck out Hunter Goodman swinging with a full-count slider

PHILADELPHIA -- Max Kepler got his first Phillies experience on Monday. He crushed a home run to right field in the eighth inning of a 6-1 victory over the Rockies at Citizens Bank Park. It was his third hit and fourth hard-hit ball of the game, confirming to fans the

PHILADELPHIA – Edmundo Sosa might be back on the Phillies’ bench on Wednesday. He understands. It’s his job. Sosa is a bench guy. He is just one player on a 26-man roster, although he considers himself more of a sixth man in basketball than anything. He believes he can produce,

PHILADELPHIA – Edmundo Sosa might be back on the Phillies’ bench on Wednesday. He understands. It’s his job. Sosa is a bench guy. He is just one player on a 26-man roster, although he considers himself more of a sixth man in basketball than anything. He believes he can produce,

WASHINGTON -- It wouldn’t be a surprise to see Trea Turner and J.T. Realmuto on the bench for Sunday’s series finale against the Nationals at Nationals Park. Turner was scratched less than an hour before Saturday’s 11-6 victory because of back spasms. Realmuto then left the game in the seventh

WASHINGTON -- Nick Castellanos worked out barefoot in a sleeveless gray Pinocchio T-shirt on Sunday morning at Nationals Park. It has been his shirt of choice before the season’s first three games.