Phillies Rookie Painter's Debut: High Stakes, High Hopes

0:00It's March 31st, M.O.B. News. Today starts now, AI powered and always on. The Phillies are in a rough spot, dropping three straight games to the Rangers and Nationals, and now they're handing the ball to Rookie Andrew. Painter for his major league debut, Tuesday night against Washington. Painter impressed in spring training, with just three runs, allowed over 11 and two-thirds innings, holding hitters to a 71 batting average, and he, even through a simulated game last week to get comfy on the citizens' bank-part mound, manager Rob Thompson is keeping expectations realistic, saying he'd be thrilled with six solid innings as long as Painter commands the strike zone and mixes his pitches to keep batters off balance. The young right-hander comes off Tommy John's surgery, and a career-high olevenate innings last year, in AAA, so the Phillies plan a cautious build, maybe. With a six-man rotation, one's Zach Wheeler returns in a couple weeks, Painter stays poised with a deep arsenal, including fastballs, sinkers, sliders, sweepers, curves, and

1:03changeups, and if the slumping line up gives them. Some early run support after going two for 26 through the order lately, this could snap the skid and launches Bigley career-writing.