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Koehler KOs familiar foe to get back on track
- Updated: July 22, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — The summer months of June and July hadn’t been kind to Tom Koehler. But he had yet to face his favorite team.
Koehler on Thursday night made his third start of the season against the Phillies to close out a 10-game road trip and four-game set in Philadelphia with a 9-3 Marlins win. He hadn’t made it past the fifth inning in three of his previous five starts. In all but one, he’d allowed at least three runs. His ERA over that span? An unsightly 7.36.
But the Phillies — baseball’s second-worst offense and a team Koehler had pitched well against twice this season — presented him with a chance to get back on track as the dog days begin to take their toll. He took full advantage, turning in his longest start of the season, with his only runs — and hits — allowed coming on a pair of home runs from Ryan Howard in the fourth and Freddy Galvis in the eighth.
“I needed to pitch better than I had …
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