Kyle Schwarber hit a three-run blast in the ninth inning for his third home run of the game and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Toronto Blue Jays 10-9 Tuesday night.
Schwarber’s go-ahead homer against Chad Green (4-5) was his 31st of the season and gave him a career-best five hits. He had six RBIs.
Daulton Varsho, Addison Barger and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit two-run homers for Toronto.
Guerrero had four hits and Leo Jimenez added a solo homer in the opener of a two-game set.
Toronto right-hander Chris Bassitt allowed four runs (three earned), 10 hits and two walks with seven strikeouts in 5 1/3 innings.
Philadelphia starter Tyler Phillips, recalled from Triple-A for the start, lasted two-thirds of an inning and allowed six runs and eight hits.
Schwarber led off the first with a homer to right center.
Toronto answered with six in the home first. Springer singled and Varsho hit his 18th homer of the season on a drive to center. Guerrero singled, took third on Spencer Horwitz’s double and scored on Will Wagner’s groundout. Alejandro Kirk hit an RBI single and Barger hit his seventh homer on a drive to right center.
Philadelphia scored twice in the third.
Schwarber led off with a double. Trea Turner reached first on an error by third baseman Barger. Bryce Harper singled to load the bases. A run scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by Nick Castellanos. Bryson Stott stroked an RBI double.
Schwarber homered on a shot to right in the fourth.
Springer singled and Guerrero hit his 28th homer on a drive to left against Taijuan Walker in the sixth.
Philadelphia scored three in the seventh. Zach Pop hit Castellanos with a pitch and Stott doubled. Erik Swanson replaced Pop with one out and walked Brandon Marsh and Edmundo Sosa to force in a run. Pinch hitter Koby Clemens’ fielder’s choice grounder to third scored a run. Schwarber scored a run on an infield single with Genesis Cabrera pitching.
Philadelphia’s Orion Kerkering (4-2) pitched around a double in the eighth.
Sosa singled and Clemens doubled to open the ninth and Schwarber followed with a blast to right.
Matt Strahm overcame Jimenez’s fourth homer in the home ninth to earn his second save.
–Field Level Media
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