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Week Record (5-1)

Year Record to Date (33-25)

Recap and Standouts

In Reading, things continued to go well with a 5-1 week. Scott Kingery did cool off a bit, but Drew Anderson continued to make strides coming out of his season off as a result of Tommy John surgery.

It may be unfair of me to become critical the moment Kingery has a few struggles. I realize that, but I am going to be anyway. He struggled through multiple hitless games this week for the first time in as far back as I can remember. He even had a game in which he struck out twice, which seemed nearly impossible even a week ago. No worries though. His average only dropped to .300 for the season.

The big pitching performances were there though. First of all, Brandon Leibrandt had a strong outing on Friday. His seven innings, allowing only four hits, walking two came with no runs and lowered his ERA to 3.56 this season.

However, the real positive to take from Reading last week came from the right arm of Drew Anderson. He has been really strong since over the course of the last month. He has allowed one run on five hits in his last two starts (13 innings). In that same span, he has walked only one and struck out eight. The outings like these are showing why the Phillies were very high on him at the start of Spring.

Out in the pen, Austin Davis continues to be effective. In two innings last week, he allowed two hits, two walks, and a run. The hope for him is that shutdown innings become more of the norm and baserunners are a shock.