"I feel like early on it was big," Snell said of his heater. "I was just trying to figure out what their game plan was and how I was going to attack."
"I just faced them not too long ago. I knew I was going to have to adjust and do some things differently and keep some things the same as well, reading the approach, trying to figure them out and attack."
"I needed weak contact,"
Blake Snell produced six scoreless innings at Citizens Bank Park, allowing one hit and striking out nine while walking four. He held the Phillies hitless until Edmundo Sosa’s broken-bat single with two outs in the fifth and navigated back-to-back walks in the sixth to finish his outing. OptaSTATS credited Snell as the first pitcher with at least nine strikeouts and two or fewer hits allowed in four different postseason starts. Snell relied on his fastball and a mix of secondary pitches, adjusted his approach against familiar hitters, and escaped trouble by inducing weak contact and key swings outside the zone.
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