Wheeler threw 110 pitches over seven innings — five hits, one run, nine strikeouts — and left with the score tied, because Javier had matched him for six and the bullpens held through the eighth. Abreu struck out the side in the eighth on ten pitches, all strikes, and Hader would need only eight more to finish. Between them, Duran came in for the ninth, and Smith ambushed a 98.5 mph splitter on the first pitch — 421 feet to center field — and that was the difference. Philadelphia managed three hits all night and left one man on base.