Captain Jack's Phillies Postgame

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, over four and a third with two homers allowed, and the Pirates batted around for six runs in the fifth to take an eight to five lead. Brandon Marsh homered again in the...

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 apart fast. Chase Shugart got one out, gave up three runs, the back-breaker a two-run pinch-hit homer by A.J. Ewing that tied it, and a C...

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 in the seventh on a Juan Soto triple and a Bo Bichette sacrifice fly. The offense managed five hits and exactly one productive swing, Harper's homer. The Mets, who had lost seven...

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 at the center-field wall to rob Juan Soto of a two-run homer and preserve a one-nothing lead. Harper drove in the first run and is on an absurd heater. Trea Turner singled home...

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 twelfth. Bryce Harper hit the go-ahead two-run shot in the ninth, his eighteenth, and Derek Hill, the man who won it last night, did it again, a four-hundred-and-forty-one-foot two-run blast to m...

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 Lovelady and drove a two-run homer to right-center to take the lead. Jhoan Duran struck out the side in the ninth to nail it down. Aaron Nola gave the Phillies five innings, two...

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 Marsh two-run homer to tie it, a Bryson Stott three-run homer to take the lead, a two-run Edmundo Sosa double, and a second Turner knock to drive in the...

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, five innings of one-run ball with four strikeouts, the lone damage a Luis García Junior solo homer. Seth Johnson got tagged in the seventh, a two-run Curtis Mead shot that m...

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, a Baty throwing error, and an Edmundo Sosa knock — then Kyle Schwarber crushed a three-run homer in the second, his twenty-ninth, four hundred and eighteen feet to right-center. Bryce Harper, the night afte...

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 quietly carried the start: six innings, one run, five strikeouts, and the only damage against him a solo homer. The Phillies hung ten runs on Freddy Peralta and the...

Mets 6, Phillies 4 at Citizens Bank Park, and Philadelphia drops the opener to the last-place Mets. Juan Soto did the damage with two solo home runs off Aaron Nola, his sixteenth and seventeenth, and Nola otherwise battled, five innings, two earned, six strikeouts. The Phillies clawed all the way back to a three to three tie on R.B.I. hits from Alec Bohm twice and a Derek Hill single. Then José Alvarado walked into a tie game in the seventh and walked out of a three-run deficit, a pinch-hit go-ahead single by Eric Wagaman and a two-run triple by Marcus S...

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. Owen Caissie, Joe Mack, and Jakob Marsee also went deep, five long balls for Miami in all. The Phillies clawed it to six to four early on...

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 Bryson Stott set the whole thing off with a two-run triple in the first. Jesús Luzardo, the Jesus Lizard, went seven strong with nine strikeouts, giving up only a late t...

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 second and his first career hit is a home run to right, and he drives in two. J.T. Realmuto adds a two-run shot to left in the fifth, his fifth of the...

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. Kyle Harrison shuts Philadelphia out over six, and Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby finish it. J.T. Realmuto sits on the day game, so Sánchez throws to Rafael Marchán...

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. Aaron Nola wobbles through four and two-thirds, Tim Mayza vultures the win, and Jhoan Duran slams the door for the save. But it's nearly a disaster: up 9-5 in the eighth, Brad Keller turns...

Phillies 0, Brewers 6 at American Family Field, and Philadelphia runs into the buzzsaw to open the Milwaukee series. Rookie Jacob Misiorowski throws a complete-game one-hit shutout, strikes out a career-high fifteen, walks nobody, faces the minimum, and hits 104.5 miles an hour, the fastest pitch of 2026 and the fastest ever thrown by a starter. Kyle Schwarber's fourth-inning single is the Phillies' only hit and the only thing standing between them and a perfect game. Tanner Banks opens and takes the loss after a Will Contreras RBI double in the first; Andrew Painter follows with five runs over five innings, the big blow...

Phillies 7, Blue Jays 4 at Rogers Centre, and Philadelphia takes the series two games to one in Toronto. They jump Max Scherzer for three home runs — Bryce Harper's solo shot in the first, Alec Bohm's three-run blast in the third, and a 423-foot Kyle Schwarber bomb off the reliever in the fourth — and chase the future Hall of Famer in the fourth on the same day he records his three thousand five hundredth career strikeout. Jesús Luzardo strikes out eight over five and two-thirds, Realmuto guns down a runner in a rundown, and José Alvarado collects his five hundredth career K. Cha...

Phillies 2, Blue Jays 3, walked off in the bottom of the ninth at Rogers Centre. Philadelphia carries a 2-1 lead to the last three outs on Bryson Stott's go-ahead double, then Jhoan Duran comes in for the save and records zero outs: a Jesús Sánchez single, a Piñango single, a wild pitch that ties it, and a Brandon Valenzuela walk-off single. Zack Wheeler was excellent and got nothing for it, six innings and one run on a Sánchez solo homer, and Dylan Cease carved the Phillies up for eleven strikeouts. Stott had two doubles and the only life...

Phillies 5, Blue Jays 2 up at Rogers Centre to open the road trip. Cristopher Sánchez does exactly what the show promised the night before, seven innings, ten strikeouts, two earned, the eleventh ten-punchout game of his career. Adolis García gets it started with a two-run homer in the second, then the Phillies hang three in the third on a Bohm single, a Realmuto single, and a bases-loaded Bryson Stott walk, all of it off a Patrick Corbin who couldn't find the plate. Ernie Clement's solo shot is the only real Toronto damage. Bryce Harper challenges the home plate umpire tw...

Phillies 9, White Sox 5, and the Phillies take the series two games to one. Aaron Nola gets roughed up again, five earned over four and a third, but the bullpen throws four and two-thirds of shutout ball behind him, José Alvarado picks up the win, and Jonathan Bowlan ends it on a double play. Brandon Marsh keeps mashing, his eighth homer plus a wall-climbing catch, Rafael Marchán adds a two-run shot, Harper and Bohm each double in runs, and the bottom of the order does the damage. Jacob Gonzalez of the Sox gets the show's first official Volpe, called out by...

White Sox 6, Phillies 3. The Phillies go for a fifth straight and don't get it. Andrew Painter gets buried early, four runs in the first and six before he's out in the fifth, the killers a Colson Montgomery solo shot and Jacob Gonzalez's first career home run. Alec Bohm and Brandon Marsh answer with solo homers and Adolis García drives one in, but Sean Burke and the Sox pen hold the line and Grant Taylor strikes out Schwarber to end it. The bullpen, Banks, Mayza, and Shugart, throws four and a third scoreless behind Painter, the one clean thing on t...

Phillies 8, White Sox 6. A slugfest, and the Phillies out-slugged them. Jesús Luzardo gets roughed up for three home runs, two from Randal Grichuk and one from Derek Hill, but Kyle Schwarber goes four for five at the top, Brandon Marsh and Adolis García go deep, and Alec Bohm rips a two-run double. Tied at six in the seventh on a Colson Montgomery single, Edmundo Sosa lifts a go-ahead sacrifice fly and the Phillies tack on for the 8-6 final. Jonathan Bowlan gets the win in relief, Jhoan Duran slams the door for his save. Four straight now, eight an...

Phillies 6, Padres 4. The broom comes out. Zack Wheeler carves the Padres up, eight strikeouts and two hits over seven, the only dent a Manny Machado two-run homer in the seventh. Adolis García's fifth-inning solo shot and a Justin Crawford run on a throwing error build a three-nothing lead, and when Machado pulls San Diego within one, the Phillies answer with three in the bottom of the seventh off Adrian Morejon. A Jackson Merrill two-run homer off José Alvarado in the ninth makes the finish a touch loud, but it's a sweep. Three straight over San Diego, and the Phillies cl...

Phillies 3, Padres 2. Cristopher Sánchez carves up San Diego, eight strikeouts over seven innings, and his left-handed scoreless-innings record ends at fifty and two-thirds on a Jackson Merrill single in the seventh. Adolis García's fifth-inning double opens the scoring, then Realmuto and Schwarber go back to back in the seventh off Jason Adam, Schwarber's M.L.B.-leading twenty-third. Trea Turner saves a run with a barehanded play in the eighth, Brad Keller plunks Bogaerts with the bases loaded to make it close, and Jhoan Duran slams the door for the save. Two in a row over the Padres, a...

Phillies 3, Padres 2. Home cookin' fixes a lot. Aaron Nola goes five with eight punchouts, the only damage a Gavin Sheets two-run homer in the third. Bryce Harper answers with a four-hundred-and-nineteen-foot two-run shot in the fourth to tie it, and the go-ahead run scores in the sixth on, of all things, an Alec Bohm double play. Brandon Marsh goes four for four. Jhoan Duran slams the door in the ninth with three strikeouts on hundred-mile-an-hour splitters. The Phillies climb back to second in the East, past Washington, one game back in the wild card.

Dodgers 9, Phillies 1. Rubber game in LA. Andrew Painter can't get out of the fourth, giving up two home runs, Ryan Ward and Alex Freeland, and four runs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto carves the Phillies up, 5⅓ shutout innings, ten punchouts. Bryson Stott's ninth-inning solo homer is the only run. The Dodgers take the series two games to one, and the Phillies slip to third in the East at 30 and 29.

Phillies 4, Dodgers 3. Game two in LA. Down 3 to 1 in the eighth against Tanner Scott, Bryce Harper singles home a run and Edmundo Sosa, pinch-hitting, launches a two-run homer to take the lead. Jesús Luzardo grinds 5⅓, Orion Kerkering takes the win, Jhoan Duran closes it touching 101. Alec Bohm homers off Roki Sasaki early. Phillies even the series and climb to 30 and 28.

Dodgers 4, Phillies 2. Series opener in LA. Zack Wheeler gives up four solo home runs in six innings, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Will Smith, and Shohei Ohtani all going deep. Justin Wrobleski shuts the Phillies down, seven innings, one run, nine punchouts. Kyle Schwarber's solo shot and a Steward Berroa run-scoring single in the eighth are the only Phillies offense. Sweep at Petco on Wednesday, flat night in LA on Friday. Phillies fall to 29 and 28.

Phillies 3, Padres 0. Sweep clinched. Cristopher Sánchez throws seven shutout innings, nine punchouts, no walks, on a hundred pitches — and breaks Grover Cleveland Alexander's 1911 franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings, pushing the streak to 44⅔. Walker Buehler has to come out injured in the sixth. Trea Turner caps it with a solo shot in the ninth. Three in a row over San Diego. Phillies pass the Nats into second in the East.

Phillies 4, Padres 3. Three solo shots — Bryce in the first, Realmuto in the second, Trea in the third. Nola goes six on eighty pitches. Brad Keller hangs a sweeper to Laureano in the eighth, Duran closes it. Two in a row, sweep tomorrow.