Salisbury: Phillies overcome poor defense for win, but Rob Thomson is blunt – “We need to clean it up”

Jose Alvarado should have been the story Tuesday night. What he did to help the Phillies beat the Washington Nationals, 7-6, at Citizens Bank Park was …
“Incredible,” manager Rob Thomson said.
“Nasty,” Alec Bohm agreed.
“Pretty cool to see,” Zack Wheeler offered.
Alvarado was asked to protect a one-run lead in the eighth inning and he succeeded. What made it all so incredible was that he did it while riding a unicycle on top of a high wire. The Nationals loaded the bases with no outs against Alvarado, but the hard-throwing lefty came back with three strikeouts -- all clutch, all dramatic -- to preserve the lead. Wheeler, who had pitched 6 2/3 innings of two-run ball to put himself in line fo...