Taijuan Walker pitched six scoreless innings, Kyle Schwarber homered and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Colorado Rockies 3-1 on Thursday. Walker, who was pulled from the Phillies rotation in 2024 because of his ineffectiveness,

Taijuan Walker logged six scoreless innings as the Philadelphia Phillies completed a three-game sweep of the visiting Colorado Rockies with a 3-1 victory Thursday afternoon.

Walker was excellent in his first start of 2025, his first effort to put behind him a disastrous 2024, in a 3-1 Phillies win. He tossed six shutout innings, exiting to cheers, a dugout awaiting him on the top step and “about a billion” texts from his mom in the stands.