Kyle Schwarber homered twice, drove in three runs and scored 4 occasions to assist the Philadelphia Phillies to a 13-7 win towards the visiting Chicago Cubs on Monday night within the opener of their three-game sequence.
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 misplaced 4 of 5.
Phillies left-hander Cristopher Sanchez (2-1) went six innings, permitting two runs and 6 hits whereas placing out eight and strolling three.
Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer, and Ian Happ, Moises Ballesteros and Miguel Amaya every had two hits and a run scored for Chicago, which has dropped three of 4.
Cubs starter Javier Assad (1-1) was tagged for 9 runs and 11 hits over 4 1/3 innings. The precise-hander struck out three and walked two.
Assad surrendered his first residence run of the season when Schwarber lifted an 0-1 changeup over the 401-sign in middle area for a 1-0 lead.
Realmuto had an RBI single within the second to make it 2-0, and Schwarber belted a two-run homer into the seats in middle for a 4-0 lead.
Swanson went the opposite approach on a Sanchez sinker and dropped a two-run homer into the right-field seats to chop it to 4-2.
After the Phillies loaded the bases with no outs within the fifth, Marsh doubled into the left-center area hole to deliver residence two runs, an Alec Bohm sacrifice fly introduced residence one other, and Bryson Stott and Realmuto adopted with RBI singles to stretch the result in 9-2 and finish the evening for Assad.
Philadelphia tacked on three extra runs within 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 within the seventh to make it 13-2.
That cushion proved advantageous as Chicago scored 5 runs within the eighth with assist from two errors from the Phillies to chop it to 13-7.
Phildelphia went 8-for-14 with runners in scoring place.
–Area Stage Media
