Captain Jack's Phillies Postgame

Philadelphia Phillies 2, Detroit Tigers 10 at Comerica Park, the third blowout loss of a nine-game road trip. Aaron Nola turns in his best start in a while, five innings, two runs, eight strikeouts on eighty-four pitches, and gets pulled in a two-two tie he never gets to defend. Derek Hill is the whole offense, three for four with a solo homer and an RBI single, three of the team's four hits. Then...

Philadelphia Phillies 1, Cincinnati Reds 0 at Great American Ball Park, a rubber-game shutout built on one run and three pitchers. Jesús Luzardo goes seven innings, allows two hits, walks two, and strikes out eleven on ninety-six pitches. Brady Singer matches him for seven and a third before the Phillies finally break through in the eighth: Gabriel Rincones Jr. is hit by a pitch, Derek Hill pinch-...

Cincinnati Reds 11, Philadelphia Phillies 5 at Great American Ball Park, a bullpen game that came apart in a single inning. Alan Rangel opens and takes the loss, going three and a third with five strikeouts but surrendering a Noelvi Marte solo homer to start a fourth inning that turned into a demolition. Tanner Banks relieves him and gives up four hits and three home runs on seventeen pitches, bac...

Philadelphia Phillies 4, Cincinnati Reds 1 at Great American Ball Park, a Zack Wheeler masterpiece that pulls the Phillies within two games of the division. Wheeler goes seven innings, allows four hits and one run, walks nobody, and strikes out fourteen to tie his career high. Kyle Schwarber crushes his thirty-first home run, a two-run shot to right-center off Andrew Abbott in the third, after Tre...

Kansas City Royals 15, Philadelphia Phillies 1 at Kauffman Stadium, a getaway-day beating that got out of hand before the top of the order came up twice. Cristopher Sánchez is rocked for nine runs on twelve hits in three and a third, the Royals bat around in a six-run first, and Kansas City scores in every single inning. Luke Maile, Salvador Perez, Lane Thomas, and Tyler Tolbert all homer, Tolbert...

Kansas City Royals 5, Philadelphia Phillies 2 at Kauffman Stadium, a game the Phillies lost in spite of Aaron Nola, not because of him. Nola throws seven innings of three-run ball with seven strikeouts, no walks, and strikes out the side in the seventh, but the offense manages just two runs against Luinder Avila and the Royals bullpen. Philadelphia claws within one at 3-2 in the seventh on a Garre...

Philadelphia Phillies 6, Kansas City Royals 1 at Kauffman Stadium on the Fourth of July, a wire-to-wire win the Phillies never trailed in. Jesús Luzardo throws six innings of one-run ball with nine strikeouts and no walks, and the bullpen of Jonathan Bowlan, Orion Kerkering, and Tim Mayza closes it out with three scoreless. The offense does its damage on the long ball off Michael Wacha: J.T. Realm...

Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Philadelphia Phillies 1 at Citizens Bank Park, a noon start in triple-digit heat, and the Phillies split the four-game series with a flat afternoon. Alan Rangel gives four scoreless innings on three hits and four walks, escaping bases-loaded trouble in the third, but the offense manages just four hits against Jared Jones and the Pirates bullpen game, scoring only on a Bryce H...

Philadelphia Phillies 10, Pittsburgh Pirates 6 at Citizens Bank Park, and the Phillies take the series with a slugfest against Paul Skenes. Trea Turner hits a three-run homer, his tenth, in the second; Brandon Marsh answers a first-inning robbery with a solo shot in the third, his fifteenth; and Alec Bohm caps it with a two-run drive to dead center in the eighth, his tenth. Bryce Harper adds a two...

Philadelphia Phillies 8, Pittsburgh Pirates 0 at Citizens Bank Park, and one night after blowing a five-run lead the Phillies answer with a clean, complete beatdown. Cristopher Sánchez throws seven scoreless on three hits with nine strikeouts, pitching through a blister he picked up in the second, and the bullpen finishes a combined five-hit shutout. Justin Crawford, the rookie, goes three for thr...

Pittsburgh Pirates 11, Philadelphia Phillies 7 at Citizens Bank Park, and the Phillies blow a five to nothing lead at home to a team under .500. Philadelphia jumped out early on a Trea Turner leadoff homer, his eighth, a Brandon Marsh solo shot in the first, and a Bryce Harper two-run homer, his twentieth, to lead five to nothing. Then Aaron Nola came apart, charged with eight runs, seven earned,...

Phillies 5, Mets 4 at Citi Field, and Philadelphia takes the series two games to one. Jesús Luzardo gave five strong innings, one run on four hits with six strikeouts, and the Phillies led three to nothing into the sixth on a Bryce Harper sacrifice fly, an Alec Bohm RBI double, and a Brandon Marsh RBI single, all set up by a Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber double steal in the third. Then it fell ap...

Phillies 2, Mets 6 at Citi Field, and the four-game winning streak is over. Philadelphia ran a bullpen game in a rain-delayed afternoon, jumped ahead two to nothing on a Bryce Harper home run, his nineteenth, and then watched it come apart. Alan Rangel took the loss after Francisco Lindor's game-tying two-run triple and an A.J. Ewing two-run single in the sixth, and Kyle Backhus gave up two more i...

Phillies 2, Mets 1 at Citi Field, and after three straight slugfests in Washington the Phillies won a completely different kind of game, a two-to-one pitcher's duel in New York. Zack Wheeler was the headliner, seven innings, four hits, one run, five strikeouts on ninety-eight pitches, with a pickoff thrown in. But the play of the night belonged to Derek Hill, who in the bottom of the first leaped...

Phillies 10, Nationals 5 at Nationals Park, and for the third straight night Philadelphia walked out of that ballpark with a comeback. Down five to nothing after Cristopher Sánchez got roughed up early, the Phillies scored ten unanswered, capped by a five-run ninth, to win going away and take the series three games to one. Brandon Marsh put them on the board with a two-run homer in the sixth, his...

Phillies 5, Nationals 4 at Nationals Park, and for the second night in a row Philadelphia walked into the ninth inning beaten and walked out winners. Down 4-3 with two outs in the top of the ninth, Kyle Schwarber pinch-hit and worked a ten-pitch walk after sitting two days, Garrett Stubbs came on to run, and Derek Hill, pinch-hitting for Justin Crawford, turned on a one-and-two pitch from Richard...

Phillies 14, Nationals 9 at Nationals Park, and Philadelphia did not win this game so much as rob it. Down eight to six in the top of the ninth, two outs, nobody on, Trea Turner stepped in oh-for-four on the night and hitting two twenty-six on the year, fought off a one-and-two count, and lined a single to center to keep the season breathing. What followed was an eight-run ninth inning: a Brandon...

Phillies 1, Nationals 4 at Nationals Park, and Philadelphia opens the road trip with a flat one. A rain-delayed first pitch and a planned bullpen game ran into Foster Griffin, the Washington lefty who went seven and a third, four hits, one run, nine strikeouts on a hundred and five pitches. Tim Mayza opened and took the loss after a one-run first. Alan Rangel was the bright spot in bulk relief, fi...

Phillies 6, Mets 2 at Citizens Bank Park, and Philadelphia closed the series by winning two straight after dropping Thursday's opener. Zack Wheeler carried it: five and two-thirds innings, four hits, two runs, three walks, seven strikeouts on a hundred and four pitches, and he's now seven and one with a two eleven E.R.A. The offense jumped David Peterson early — two in the first on a Bohm single,...

Phillies 15, Mets 3 at Citizens Bank Park, and Philadelphia took the worst team in the division behind the woodshed on national television. Bryce Harper hit for the cycle — a home run in the first, a double and a single in the third, and a two-run triple in the fifth to finish it. Kyle Schwarber hit three home runs, two of them in one eight-run third inning, and drove in six. Cristopher Sánchez qu...

Marlins 12, Phillies 4 at Citizens Bank Park on a getaway-day matinee, and Philadelphia loses the finale after winning the series. Andrew Painter got knocked out in the third, charged with six earned runs on two innings and two home runs, and his season line is now one and eight with a seven oh six E.R.A. Kyle Stowers wrecked the afternoon, four for five with two home runs and five runs batted in....

Phillies 8, Marlins 2 at Citizens Bank Park, and Philadelphia takes the series with a game to spare. The Phillies hung three home runs on Marlins starter Tyler Phillips, who got knocked out after four innings and eight earned runs. Brandon Marsh and Alec Bohm went back-to-back in the second, Kyle Schwarber lined his twenty-fifth of the year to right in the fourth on a rare night at first base, and...

Phillies 7, Marlins 0 at Citizens Bank Park, and Philadelphia comes home off a .500 road trip to throw a shutout at Miami. Zack Wheeler sets the tone with six scoreless, two hits, three walks, and nine strikeouts, and the bullpen of Tim Mayza, Jonathan Bowlan, and Chase Shugart finishes the blanking. The night belongs to a debut: Gabriel Rincones Junior, up from Jersey Shore, takes a hack in the s...

Phillies 0, Brewers 4 at American Family Field, and Philadelphia gets blanked on getaway day to drop the series two games to one. A day after hanging nine, the bats manage four hits and never score. Cristopher Sánchez takes the loss, charged with four runs over five and two-thirds, both off the long ball: a Jackson Chourio leadoff homer in the first and a Blake Perkins three-run shot in the fourth...

Phillies 9, Brewers 8 at American Family Field, and Philadelphia answers a one-hit shutout with a seventeen-hit avalanche. A night after Misiorowski one-hit them, the bats wake up: J.T. Realmuto goes three for four with a three-run homer and four runs batted in, Edmundo Sosa and Realmuto both go deep, Bryson Stott doubles twice and drives in two, Brandon Marsh and Sosa each rack up three hits. Aar...