“Unraveling the Crucial Blunder: Rojas and Sosa Reveal the Hidden Tensions Behind Wheeler’s Costly Defeat for the Phillies”
But Wheeler was unable to navigate through the bottom of the sixth, in large part because of tough at-bats from bottom-of-the-order hitters Jarred Kelenic and Orlando Arcia.
“I was mad at myself for not bearing down because you take pride in that type of stuff,” Wheeler said. “Not being able to bear down and get out of that (third) inning unscathed, that made me mad also.
“Things like that happen, you’ve got to keep the focus. I’ve been doing it for a while now and stuff like that’s happened over my career. So you kind of take pride as a pitcher in, all right, I’m going to get us out of this. And it just didn’t happen tonight.”
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