He wasn’t in the starting lineup Wednesday when he showed up to the ballpark, yet a few hours later, birthday boy Weston Wilson delivered for the Phillies with a dribbler down the third-base line that won them a game and completed a sweep.
Wilson started at third base after Kyle Schwarber was scratched from the initial lineup with the elbow contusion he suffered Tuesday night. Bryce Harper moved to DH and Kody Clemens slid across the diamond to first base. Batting with two outs and runners on the corners in the sixth inning of a tie game, Wilson made soft contact on a 97 mph sinker in on his hands and it reached no man’s land between the mound and third base. He beat out the infield single and the Phillies beat the Rays, 3-2.
The Phils have won nine of 11 games, 14 of their last 18, and at …