{"id":167177,"date":"2025-09-25T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167177\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T02:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T02:43:08","slug":"phillies-hit-team-record-8-homers-to-clinch-first-round-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/167177\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies hit team-record 8 homers to clinch first-round bye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33809\/edmundo-sosa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmundo Sosa<\/a> hit three of Philadelphia&#8217;s team-record eight home runs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33712\/kyle-schwarber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Schwarber<\/a> had two to pad his National League lead and the Phillies wrapped up a first-round bye with an 11-1 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Assured one of the top two seeds in the NL, the East champion Phillies (93-65) will open the postseason at home Oct. 4 in a best-of-five Division Series.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber hit Nos. 55 and 56 to pull within two of Seattle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41292\/cal-raleigh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cal Raleigh<\/a> for the major league lead. Schwarber also doubled and singled. Philadelphia hit seven homers against Atlanta on Aug. 28, with Schwarber getting four of them.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>Sosa was activated before the game after being out since Sept. 16 because of a groin injury. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42417\/bryson-stott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bryson Stott<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41169\/alec-bohm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Bohm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5136835\/otto-kemp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Otto Kemp<\/a> also homered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39667\/jesus-luzardo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jesus Luzardo<\/a> (15-7) struck out 10 in seven innings against his former team. He allowed three hits and one run.<\/p>\n<p>Marlins starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41178\/ryan-weathers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Weathers<\/a> (2-2) lasted 4\u2154 innings, allowing five earned runs on six hits &#8212; three of them homers. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5216700\/valente-bellozo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valente Bellozo<\/a> allowed four homers in the seventh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Edmundo Sosa hit three of Philadelphia&#8217;s team-record eight home runs, Kyle Schwarber had two to pad&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-167177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}