Kyle Schwarber hit his major league-leading 18th home run, a two-run shot that broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Schwarber has seven homers in his last seven games, the first Phillies player to hit at least that many in a similar span since current teammate Trea Turner<\/a> in 2023. Schwarber\u2019s towering shot in this one cleared the visiting bullpen in right field and traveled an estimated 417 feet.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Bryson Stott<\/a> added an insurance run later in the eighth on an infield hit on which he was initially called out, but it was overturned after the Phillies challenged.<\/p>\n Brad Keller<\/a> (2-1) struck out two in one relief inning for the win and Jhoan Duran<\/a> fanned the side in the ninth for his seventh save.<\/p>\n Wilyer Abreu<\/a>\u2019s RBI single in the eighth accounted for Boston\u2019s lone run. The Red Sox wrapped up a homestand during which they dropped two of three in series against Tampa Bay and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n Boston reliever Tyler Samaniego<\/a> (0-1) hadn\u2019t allowed a homer in his first 13 career MLB games, spanning 15 innings, before getting taken deep by Schwarber, who also struck out three times.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Neither starter factored in the decision. Boston\u2019s Ranger Suarez<\/a> went 5 1\/3 scoreless innings and struck out eight, while Philadelphia\u2019s Jesus Luzardo<\/a> fanned four in six scoreless innings. In his previous start, Luzardo was tagged for six runs in just three innings.<\/p>\n The start of the game was delayed by 22 minutes because of rain.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Phillies: Travel to Pittsburgh<\/a> for a three-game series that begins Friday night. Phillies RHP Aaron Nola<\/a> (2-3, 5.14) is scheduled to oppose Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft<\/a> (2-2, 2.77).<\/p>\n Red Sox: Open a three-game series in Atlanta<\/a> on Friday with LHP Connelly Early<\/a> (3-2, 3.16) facing Braves RHP Spencer Strider<\/a> (1-0, 2.89).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Schwarber hit his major league-leading 18th home run, a two-run shot that broke a scoreless tie in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[16074,4131,64,63,5156,116271,66396,22726,91434,53315,324364,122626,21601,5152,591,2365,5132,22730,7311,85,22727,324365,21936],"class_list":["post-672181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-aaron-nola","tag-atlanta","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-brad-keller","tag-braxton-ashcraft","tag-bryson-stott","tag-connelly-early","tag-eighth-inning","tag-eric-canha-imagn","tag-jesus-luzardo","tag-jhoan-duran","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-pittsburgh","tag-ranger-suarez","tag-spencer-strider","tag-sports","tag-trea-turner","tag-tyler-samaniego","tag-wilyer-abreu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672181","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=672181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}