Kyle Schwarber homered twice, drove in three runs and scored four times to help the Philadelphia Phillies to a 13-7 win against the visiting Chicago Cubs on Monday evening in the opener of their three-game series.
J.T. Realmuto had three hits and three RBIs, Brandon Marsh added three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored, and Adolis Garcia contributed two hits, an RBI and two runs scored for the Phillies, who had lost four of five.
Phillies left-hander Cristopher Sanchez (2-1) went six innings, allowing two runs and six hits while striking out eight and walking three.
Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer, and Ian Happ, Moises Ballesteros and Miguel Amaya each had two hits and a run scored for Chicago, which has dropped three of four.
Cubs starter Javier Assad (1-1) was tagged for nine runs and 11 hits over 4 1/3 innings. The right-hander struck out three and walked two.
Assad surrendered his first home run of the season when Schwarber lifted an 0-1 changeup over the 401-sign in center field for a 1-0 lead.
Realmuto had an RBI single in the second to make it 2-0, and Schwarber belted a two-run homer into the seats in center for a 4-0 lead.
Swanson went the other way on a Sanchez sinker and dropped a two-run homer into the right-field seats to cut it to 4-2.
After the Phillies loaded the bases with no outs in the fifth, Marsh doubled into the left-center field gap to bring home two runs, an Alec Bohm sacrifice fly brought home another, and Bryson Stott and Realmuto followed with RBI singles to stretch the lead to 9-2 and end the night for Assad.
Philadelphia tacked on three more runs in the sixth on an RBI double by Garcia, a run-scoring groundout by Alec Bohm and an RBI single by Realmuto for a 12-2 lead.
The Phillies added on an unearned run in the seventh to make it 13-2.
That cushion proved advantageous as Chicago scored five runs in the eighth with help from two errors from the Phillies to cut it to 13-7.
Phildelphia went 8-for-14 with runners in scoring position.
–Field Level Media
