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Thompson ready for next challenge after debut
- Updated: August 7, 2016
SAN DIEGO — Jake Thompson expected better than this.
But if there is any good news following his big league debut Saturday night in a 9-7 loss to the Padres at Petco Park it is that he will get more opportunities to prove why the Phillies coveted him last summer in the Cole Hamels trade and why MLBPipeline considers him the No. 69 prospect in baseball.
He allowed seven hits, six runs, two walks and struck out one in just 4 1/3 innings. He became one of six Phillies pitchers since 1913 to allow six or more earned runs in fewer than five innings in his big league debut, according to Baseball Reference. Turk Farrell (1956), Rafael Quirico (1996), Ethan Martin (2013), Severino Gonzalez (2015) and Zach Eflin (2016) are the others.
“I wasn’t nervous,” Thompson said. “I was kind of amped up, instead of being nervous. Especially in that first inning, I just wasn’t able to spin the ball for strikes or be able to get fastballs down in the …
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