Kyle Schwarber Homers Twice In Phillies' 11-0 Romp Past Nationals
J.T. Realmuto hit a two-run shot and a sacrifice fly as the Phillies won for the fourth time in five games.
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J.T. Realmuto hit a two-run shot and a sacrifice fly as the Phillies won for the fourth time in five games.
The Phillies were without Bryce Harper for the second straight game, and the 2021 NL MVP will be sidelined indefinitely due to a broken left thumb that interim manager Rob Thomson said will require surgery.
Wheeler (6-4) lost for the first time in his last 10 starts, since losing his first three starts this season after finishing second in the NL Cy Young Award voting last year.
It was just the fourth loss in 19 games for the Phillies, while interim manager Rob Thomson lost for the first time in six series openers since taking over after Joe Girardi was fired.
Philadelphia, which scored seven runs in the third inning, has won 12 of its last 14 and improved to 11-2 under interim manager Rob Thomson.
Stubbs drove a 2-2 fastball deep to right for his third homer.
The Phillies have won 10 of 11 games to streak into NL wild-card contention.
The Phillies are a sterling 7-0 under interim manager Rob Thomson.
The Phillies won their season-high sixth in a row, five of them since interim manager Rob Thomson took over when Joe Girardi was fired on Friday.
Bohm belted a leadoff homer off Hader (0-1), whose streak of 40 straight scoreless appearances dating to last season was snapped.
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Kyle Schwarber and Nick Maton homered to help the Philadelphia Phillies snap a five-game losing streak with a 6-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.
Harper has been the team's designated hitter after being diagnosed with a small UCL tear in his right elbow, which he hurt on a throw from right field in April.
"Every time I place my hand over my heart and remove my hat, I'm participating in a self congratulatory glorification of the only country where these mass shootings take place," Kapler wrote on his blog.
Philadelphia had lost each of Nola's last eight starts, but he had a 3.69 ERA over that stretch.
Dansby Swanson scored the tiebreaking run in the fifth inning on an excruciating defensive sequence by the Phillies.
Wheeler (3-3) improved to 3-0 with a 1.38 ERA with 40 strikeouts in his last five starts.
The Padres and Phillies each won 3-0 games in the first two games of the series and this one also had little offense.
The Phillies took two of three from the Mariners helped by the homer barrage by Hoskins.
The Phillies have lost five of six.
Wheeler went 7 2/3 innings, giving up six hits and getting seven strikeouts, lowering his ERA to 4.10.
Suarez allowed five runs, three earned, in five-plus innings.
The Phillies earned their first series win since taking two of three from Oakland to open the season and will go for the four-game sweep on Thursday.
Jean Segura, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto also had two hits each for Philadelphia, which won for just the third time in 10 games.
