Rob Thomson went to Tanner Banks, Jose Alvarado and Taijuan Walker to eat some innings, this being Walker’s first appearance in long relief after being demoted from the rotation. He did pitch two scoreless innings before allowed a two-run home run to Vladimir Guerrero, Jr., in the sixth inning to widen the home advantage to four runs.
In the top of the seventh inning, Jays’ reliever, Zach Pop, plunked Nick Castellanos to start the inning (he would later leave the game), then allowed a double by Bryson Stott and struck out JT Realmuto before giving way to Erik Swanson. Swanson promptly walked in a run with back-to-back walks to Brandon Marsh and Edmundo Sosa. Kody Clemens hit a sharp ground out to third that scored Stott, then Schwarber hit a grounder to the right side of the infield that Guerrero couldn’t come up with, allowing Sosa to score and cutting the run margin to one.
Jose Ruiz and Orion Kerkering held the Jays in check in the seventh and eighth innings, allowing the offense to take on closer, Chad Green, in the ninth. Sosa led off with a single followed by a double by Clemens to bring Schwarber to the plate. Green threw him nine pitches, mostly fastballs, of which Schwarber fouled off seven before clobbering the ninth to right field.
Matt Strahm closed it out, not before allowing a two-out solo shot to shortstop, Leo Jimenez.
Cristopher Sanchez will face off against Bowden Francis in the wrap-up game tomorrow afternoon.
Magic number for the division is 19.
After an emotional four-game series against the Braves, travelling across the border and enduring a five-run deficit in a first inning that saw their starter chased from the game, they may have been forgiven for putting their mop up crew on the mound and packing it in to fight another day. But the Philadelphia Phillies (82-56) revealed another aspect of their tenacity with a come-from-behind 10-8 win against the Toronto Blue Jays (67-73) on Tuesday night at Rogers Centre in the opener of their two-game stint.
Kyle Schwarber broke a 17 game home run drought in the most Schwarb-like fashion by mashing three (29, 30, 31) to go along with a single and double for the first five-hit game of his career. It was also the second three home run game of the season for Schwarber, the first time a Phillie has accomplished that feat.
Tyler Phillips made his first start in nearly three weeks and predictably got rocked. Since his complete game shutout on July 27th, he has made four starts and has gone 11.2 IP with 28 hits, 23 earned runs and a 17.74 ERA. Thank you for your service.
The Blue Jays and starter, Chris Bassitt, proved equally vulnerable as the offense took advantage of some poor pitching, lucky bounces and defensive miscues to string together two runs in the top of the third inning to cut the lead to three.
Schwarber got his second home run off Bassitt with one out in the top of the fourth inning to make it a two-run game.
Another three home run game for Kyle Schwarber. The Phillies leadoff man also had his 12th leadoff home run of the year.
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