Auction Gossel set the record for the fastest strikeout of 2,500 The Warriors broke out on the line and crushed the Phillies on the line

When Chris Sale threw in a performance worthy of the National League Young Award winner, and the annoying Warriors line saw Zack Wheeler show his true colors, the mood in the locker room turned around. Despite the loss of the Warriors' starting pitchers and three consecutive series losses, Searle stopped the Phillies without dropping a point in six innings, and Ozzie Albies led a four-point offensive with a two-point shot from Wheeler in four innings, and Atlanta eventually won 9-3 at Citizens Bank Stadium and flew home with energy.

'I always want to leave with at least one win,' said Serre, 'and the injury news today is heavy, but the win allows us to come home happily. He hit just two hits in six innings, and the last of his eight strikeouts became a career 2,500K milestone, setting the record for the fastest inning in modern baseball history in 2,026 innings (the original record was held by idol Randy Johnson at 2,107.2 innings), becoming the 40th pitcher in history and the 38th in modern times to do so. "He's writing a Hall of Fame chapter," said coach Brian Snitker, "and it's amazing to be a contender obsessed with baseball history." "

After a 5-4 loss in the opening game of the doubles, the Warriors' locker room was as dead as a morgue when rookie AJ Smith-Shawver went out with an elbow injury and a sixth-of-seven-game defeat in the last seven games left the National League East Division trailing by double digits. Against Wheeler, who had an 2.56 NC in 11 games from his hometown team (second only to Searle in the Cy Young vote last year), the Warriors exploded in four innings: After Matt Olson and Austin Riley hit back-to-back second-run hits, Albis swept the ball over the right field wall. Wheeler conceded six points in 5.1 innings, five of which were self-blame — the three times he has lost five points in a single game since 2023 are all Warriors.

Albis continued his 14-game hit with a sixth-game hit of the season, and Riley's seven-inning two-point shot ended a home run drought since May 4, and two long hits in a single game exceeded the previous 21 games combined. "Hopefully tonight will be a turning point," Riley said, "and I will always trust this group of buddies." As Searle stepped down the pitcher's mound, the night sky over Philadelphia was lit up by the afterglow of historic strikeouts.