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Zack Wheeler was already fired up before he threw a single pitch Tuesday. Left off the All-Star replacement list despite being one of the best starters in baseball, the thirty-six-year-old Phillies ace went out and tied a career high with fourteen strikeouts, carving up the Cincinnati Reds in a four to one Philadelphia win. The selection committee may want to reconsider.
Across the Atlantic, Wimbledon has a story nobody saw coming. British wildcard Arthur Fery, ranked one hundred fourteenth in the world, has reached the quarter-finals at the All England Club, only the sixth Briton to do so in the Open era. He knocked out Grigor Dimitrov in the last sixteen and looked genuinely shocked himself. The twenty-three-year-old now stands one win from a semifinal berth.
And in Los Angeles, the Dodgers dropped a stunner to the Colorado Rockies, four to three, their eleven-game winning streak snapped by a pair of eighth-inning runs on a bunt single. Infield errors opened the door and Colorado walked right through it. Sometimes the smallest play carries the biggest consequences.
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