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CBS News
3 days ago
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- CBS News
Schwarber, Castellanos power Phillies to 12-5 win, dropping Yankees 5 1/2 games back of Blue Jays
Kyle Schwarber hit a pair of two-run homers and J.T. Realmuto followed the Yankees' ninth error in four games with a tiebreaking, three-run drive in a four-run seventh inning, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies over New York 12-5 on Friday night. Schwarber's tying drive in the fifth off Will Warren was his 1,000th hit and 319th homer, the most for a player reaching 1,000 — eight more than Mark McGwire. Trea Turner had his fourth four-hit game this year, including a triple, and walked for the Phillies, who scored 10 runs in the last three innings. Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe hit solo homers for the Yankees, who wasted 2-0 and 3-2 leads in dropping a season-high 5 1/2 games behind AL East-leading Toronto. New York led by seven games in late May but has gone 21-27 since. The Yankees have made 14 errors in July while allowing 32 homers. After Realmuto's homer built a 6-3 lead in a four-run seventh and the Yankees closed within a run in the bottom half. Schwarber connected off Ian Hamilton in the eighth for his 36th homer and 33rd multi-homer game. Schwarber has six homers in seven games since winning the All-Star Game swing-off. New York led 3-2 when Turner singled on a sinking liner off Tim Hill (3-3) starting the seventh that right fielder Aaron Judge trapped. Schwarber singled and Luke Weaver relieved with one out. Nick Castellanos grounded sharply between first and second, where first baseman Paul Goldschmidt ranged to pick it up where the infield grass met the first. The four-time Gold Glove winner made an off-balance throw that sailed to the backstop as Turner scored on the infield single, Schwarber reached third and Castellanos took second. Realmuto drove a changeup into the left-field seats for a 6-3 lead, the seventh homer off Weaver in his last 15 outings. Realmuto has gone deep in consecutive games following a 42-game homerless streak. Volpe homered in the bottom half and Judge hit a sacrifice fly for his 84th RBI. Tanner Banks (3-2) got the final out of the sixth. Judge coming up short on Turner's liner. New York has 54 errors this season. Warren threw away a potential double-play grounder. New York RHP Marcus Stroman (2-1, 5.64) and Philadelphia LHP Ranger Suárez (7-4, 2.66) start Saturday.
Associated Press
3 days ago
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- Associated Press
Schwarber, Castellanos power Phillies to 12-5 win, dropping Yankees 5 1/2 games back of Blue Jays
NEW YORK (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit a pair of two-run homers and J.T. Realmuto followed the Yankees' ninth error in four games with a tiebreaking, three-run drive in a four-run seventh inning, lifting the Philadelphia Phillies over New York 12-5 on Friday night. Schwarber's tying drive in the fifth off Will Warren was his 1,000th hit and 319th homer, the most for a player reaching 1,000 — eight more than Mark McGwire. Trea Turner had his fourth four-hit game this year, including a triple, and walked for the Phillies, who scored 10 runs in the last three innings. Cody Bellinger, Austin Wells, Giancarlo Stanton and Anthony Volpe hit solo homers for the Yankees, who wasted 2-0 and 3-2 leads in dropping a season-high 5 1/2 games behind AL East-leading Toronto. New York led by seven games in late May but has gone 21-27 since. The Yankees have made 14 errors in July while allowing 32 homers. After Realmuto's homer built a 6-3 lead in a four-run seventh and the Yankees closed within a run in the bottom half. Schwarber connected off Ian Hamilton in the eighth for his 36th homer and 33rd multi-homer game. Schwarber has six homers in seven games since winning the All-Star Game swing-off. New York led 3-2 when Turner singled on a sinking liner off Tim Hill (3-3) starting the seventh that right fielder Aaron Judge trapped. Schwarber singled and Luke Weaver relieved with one out. Nick Castellanos grounded sharply between first and second, where first baseman Paul Goldschmidt ranged to pick it up where the infield grass met the first. The four-time Gold Glove winner made an off-balance throw that sailed to the backstop as Turner scored on the infield single, Schwarber reached third and Castellanos took second. Realmuto drove a changeup into the left-field seats for a 6-3 lead, the seventh homer off Weaver in his last 15 outings. Realmuto has gone deep in consecutive games following a 42-game homerless streak. Volpe homered in the bottom half and Judge hit a sacrifice fly for his 84th RBI. Tanner Banks (3-2) got the final out of the sixth. Key moment Judge coming up short on Turner's liner. Key stat New York has 54 errors this season. Warren threw away a potential double-play grounder. Up next New York RHP Marcus Stroman (2-1, 5.64) and Philadelphia LHP Ranger Suárez (7-4, 2.66) start Saturday. ___ AP MLB:
Boston Globe
5 days ago
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- Boston Globe
Red Sox salvage series finale against Phillies in 11-inning, seven-homer contest
That represented a repeat of what they did over the weekend against the Cubs, dropping two and coming from behind to win the finale. So in a post-All-Star break test against a pair of NL division-leading clubs, they managed a 2-4 mark, bad but not quite miserable. The Dodgers await at Fenway Park beginning Friday. The Sox have six games and a week to go until the July 31 trade deadline. 'We have a good baseball team that obviously needs to get improved,' manager Alex Cora said before the game. 'But it starts here, with the guys that we have.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Jorge Alcala gave up a run in the bottom of the 11th. But Brennan Bernardino, highly likely the last reliever available in the Red Sox bullpen, picked up the final out for the first save of his career. Advertisement This was the first time in eight chances this season that the Red Sox won an extra-innings game on the road. The first in a series of late dramatics actually came from Cora, who called on closer Aroldis Chapman in the seventh inning — the earliest Chapman has appeared in a game this season — for a four-out hold attempt. He retired Kyle Schwarber to end the seventh, stranding the would-be tying run at second base, and got two quick outs in the eighth Advertisement But J.T. Realmuto took Chapman's slowest fastball of the day — a 96.7-mile-per-hour sinker, over the heart of the plate — and planted it over the center-field wall for a tying home run. It was just the third long ball allowed by Chapman this season, the first since May 7. For Chapman, it was the first time in more than a year that he recorded more than three outs. The teams traded runs in the 10th, with Trevor Story contributing an RBI single and Schwarber following suit. The Red Sox' hitters came out quiet against Jesús Luzardo, who early on was about as good as Cristopher Sánchez on Tuesday and better than Zack Wheeler on Monday. He didn't allow a base runner until the fourth, when Rob Refsnyder walked. Then the implosion came. At the start of the fifth inning, the Red Sox had zero hits and were getting blown out. By the end, they held a lead. It started with Masataka Yoshida's leadoff double. The Sox were on the brink of wasting a two-on, no-out situation when Luzardo completely and suddenly lost the strike zone. A key assist for the Red Sox: Catcher J.T. Realmuto lost Refsnyder's two-out, bases-loaded pop-up, running to the backstop netting as the ball landed behind him, closer to the plate. Luzardo responded by walking Refsnyder to force in a run, walking Jarren Duran to force in another run, and leaving a changeup over the plate to Romy Gonzalez. Gonzalez hammered it to left-center field for his first career grand slam. Gonzalez had been mired in an 0-for-20 skid (with eight strikeouts) prior to the big swing. Advertisement That bailed out Lucas Giolito, who suffered through four innings and allowed five runs, all on home runs. The Phillies' four long balls against him were the most allowed by a Sox pitcher this year and matched the most given up by Giolito in a single game in his career. He put the Sox in an immediate hole, allowing 848 feet of homers on consecutive pitches to Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper. Harper's, which landed in the second deck in right field, was the 350th of his career. The second inning was smoother for Giolito, but when Refsnyder, in left field, caught a fly ball for the third out, he didn't know the inning was over. He chucked the ball toward the plate, to nobody, as the other players headed for the dugout. Nick Castellanos added a solo shot in the third, and Bryson Stott — on the day his wife Dru gave birth to their son — did so in the fourth. It was the second start in a row in which Giolito regressed from his June-into-July dominance. Leading into the All-Star break, he allowed three earned runs in five games. In his past two outings, he has given up nine. Managing with a sudden lead, Cora pulled Giolito in favor of five innings from the bullpen. Justin Wilson handled the first six outs, his longest outing since 2015. Marcelo Mayer exited prior to the bottom of the fifth because of right wrist discomfort, the Red Sox announced. Abraham Toro replaced him at third base. Tim Healey can be reached at
New York Times
14-07-2025
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- New York Times
Phillies hitters have made adjustments, but need a power boost. Can they achieve a balance?
SAN DIEGO — Bryce Harper worked a favorable count against Nick Pivetta in Sunday's fifth inning, then took a curveball that was called a strike above the zone. He didn't chase. He would force Pivetta to come to him. And the Padres righty did, throwing Harper a center-cut, 94 mph fastball. Harper crushed it. Advertisement The ball sailed 371 feet, but it lost steam in the California air. It plopped into left fielder Bryce Johnson's glove. Harper raised his arms in disgust. He put his hands on his hips. 'I've hit so many of those over the wall,' Harper said. He came to bat again in the eighth inning and jumped ahead 2-0 in the count. The Phillies have worked the 10th-most 2-0 counts of any club this season. They have often been in an advantageous spot to hit. It is crucial. However, after getting to 2-0 counts this season, they have slugged .396 — their worst output in those situations since 1991 and 122 points below last season. They have not hit for consistent power in the season's first 96 games. In that eighth inning, Harper took a strike and fouled another. He went into two-strike mode. He slashed an elevated fastball down the third-base line and hustled to second base. Two batters later, J.T. Realmuto took a 3-0 strike, then jumped a hanging slider for a run-scoring double. That was the game, a 2-1 Phillies win. They went into the All-Star break with the Most Phillies Game — a strong pitching performance, a shaky escape from the bullpen and barely enough offense. It was appropriate. 'I think everybody needs a break right now,' Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. Why? 'I just think we've been grinding,' Thomson said. 'There haven't been many games where you've felt really comfortable. Everything's been a close game, whether we're down, whether we're up. And I think everybody just needs a little break right now.' The manager is not wrong; numerous players have pushed through dings and dents in the last few weeks. They scattered after Sunday's game for some vacation time. There will be trades to make later this month, and while major-league sources have said the Phillies plan to prioritize bullpen additions, they will have to think about obtaining a power boost from somewhere. The reality is that slugging is down across the whole sport; many clubs are in search of a right-handed hitter. Advertisement The Phillies entered the break fifth in slugging percentage in the National League and 14th in MLB. They are seventh in the NL in runs scored. But they are doing many of the things the front office and coaching staff requested in the wake of last season's bittersweet defeat in the National League Division Series. The Phillies wanted their hitters to use the whole field. They wanted them to chase fewer pitches out of the zone. They wanted a better two-strike approach. Their hitters have, largely, made those adjustments. They are carrying their lowest chase rate since 2021 — while seeing the fewest percentage of pitches in the strike zone than any other club. They have the eighth-lowest strikeout rate in baseball. Their .329 on-base percentage ranks fourth in MLB. However, in recent weeks, some veteran hitters have wondered if the dip in power is related to the agenda shift. It's hard to have it all. The Phillies constructed a lineup filled with aggressive-minded hitters who are not prototypes for 'controlling the strike zone.' Team officials were suggesting novel concepts. The previous approach was exploited in two consecutive Octobers. It is hard to change, and it is even harder to have it all. 'There's a correlation to it, you know?' outfielder Brandon Marsh said. 'The teams that chase a lot and have a lot of strikeouts also probably lead the league in homers. Or are up there. But I don't necessarily remember us having a meeting or a sit-down of, like, stop chasing. Maybe just, like, 'We need to put better at-bats together. Pass the baton.' Stuff like that. But nothing in particular.' Realmuto, who has rediscovered his gap power in recent weeks, said something interesting earlier this month. He is a timing hitter — always has been — and this season he has not often had his timing. But some of the messaging had muddled things even further. Advertisement He ditched a lot of the mechanical thinking. 'Just trying to get my 'A' swing off as often as I can,' Realmuto said two weeks ago. 'Lately, I think I've just been a little too mechanical at the plate. Maybe thinking too much. So I'm just trying to go up there and let the game come to me and be ready to hit.' Did the team-wide adjustments come at the expense of power? 'It's a good question,' Thomson said. 'I don't know. I don't know.' The Phillies know this much: They could benefit from more homers. They've hit 102 through 96 games. That is 16 fewer than at this point last season and the club's fewest through 96 games since 2017. Outside of Harper or Kyle Schwarber, who is fifth in the majors in homers (30), it's unclear who will supply the power. 'I mean,' Thomson said, 'at some point, you just got to believe that they're going to get it going.' The manager identified Marsh and Alec Bohm as two candidates for some second-half pop. Max Kepler is another, Thomson said. Kepler ranks 133rd among 155 qualified hitters in slugging percentage this season. It's not hard to see where the Kepler situation is headed. Thomson dropped Kepler to eighth in the batting order Saturday, then pinch hit for him in the eighth inning against a lefty reliever. He was not in Sunday's lineup, marking the first time all season Kepler sat when a righty starter opposed the Phillies. In many ways, the Phillies are what they are. It would be best if they could somehow achieve a balance. Let the aggressive hitters swing away, and maybe they run into a few more homers. It doesn't have to be everyone. But Realmuto's surge — he's hitting .336/.373/.412 since June 1 — is instructive. He hasn't homered since May 21. But the nine doubles have helped. Only Trea Turner has more since the beginning of June. 'Simplify my approach and just do less, really,' Realmuto said. 'That's what it comes down to. Just let them supply the power, and just try to get the barrel to it.' Advertisement The break, Realmuto said, will help a team like the Phillies. They lean on their regulars. Their starters log a ton of innings. Everyone can recharge and rethink what has worked and what has not. They have ideas to consider. 'Our slug is definitely down a little bit, for sure, as a team,' Marsh said. 'But I also think that we've had better at-bats for the last month or so. So, there's that seesaw. Better at-bats, maybe see a couple extra pitches. But fewer homers with less aggression. So, who knows? We might come back in four days and just jump right back on it.' (Top photo of J.T. Realmuto: Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images)
Washington Post
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Washington Post
Realmuto doubles in Harper in the 8th as the Phillies beat the Padres 2-1
SAN DIEGO — J.T. Realmuto doubled in Bryce Harper with the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning and Cristopher Sánchez was impressive for 7 1/3 innings as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the San Diego Padres 2-1 on Sunday to prevent a three-game sweep. Sánchez (8-2) got a nice ovation from several hundred Phillies fans sitting behind the third-base dugout after manager Rob Thomson lifted him with one out in the eighth. He held the Padres to one run and six hits while striking out six and walking three. With the Padres ceding most of the left side of the infield and All-Star lefty reliever Adrian Morejon (7-4) pitching, the left-handed Harper sent a hard shot a few feet inside the third base line that rolled into left field. David Morgan came on and struck out Nick Castellanos before Realmuto doubled into the gap in left-center to bring in Harper. Morgan shouted into his glove in frustration. Harper scored both Phillies runs, the first one coming in the first when the Padres committed two errors. He drew a two-out walk off Nick Pivetta, advanced on All-Star third baseman Manny Machado's throwing error and Realmuto's infield single, and scored on first baseman Luis Arraez's throwing error. The Padres tied it in the sixth when Jose Iglesias singled off the glove of diving second baseman Bryson Stott to bring in Machado. Pivetta struck out eight and allowed one unearned run and three hits in 6 2/3 innings, with two walks. After intentionally walking All-Star Fernando Tatis Jr. to put two runners on in the ninth, former Padres reliever Matt Strahm got Arraez to line out to left for his sixth save. The teams split the season series 3-3, with each going 2-1 at home. The Phillies open a three-game home series against the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night. The Padres start a three-game series at Washington on Friday night. ___ AP MLB:
