Tyler Phillips allowed just four hits while recording a shutout to help the Philadelphia Phillies cruise to an 8-0 win against the visiting Cleveland Guardians on Saturday night. The teams have split the first two games of the three-game series.
Phillips (3-0), a rookie right-hander, struck out four and walked one in his third major league start and fourth career appearance. He needed just 105 pitches to blank Cleveland.
Bryce Harper , Kyle Schwarber and Brandon Marsh homered during a seven-run fourth inning for the Phillies.
Schwarber had three hits and three RBIs, Marsh had two hits and two RBIs and Nick Castellanos homered, singled and scored twice for Philadelphia, which won for just the second time in its past five games.
Cleveland starter Carlos Carrasco (3-9) was tagged for six runs and six hits in 3 2/3 innings. He struck out five and walked one.
In a matchup between the two teams with the best records in the major leagues, Carrasco allowed just one hit through the first three innings, fanning five.
However, he gave up an infield single by Trea Turner to start the fourth. Following a wild pitch that moved Turner to second, Harper went the other way with a full-count changeup and deposited the ball over the wall in left for a two-run homer and a 2-0 lead.
It was Harper's 100th home run at Citizens Bank Park.
Three batters later and with a runner on first, Marsh lifted a low two-strike changeup over the fence in right for another two-run homer and a 4-0 lead.
Philadelphia added two more singles before Carrasco was lifted after getting Austin Hays to hit into a forceout. Nick Sandlin entered the game, and Schwarber greeted him by hitting a three-run homer over the center field fence to cap a seven-pitch at-bat and stretch the lead to 7-0.
Castellanos took Pedro Avila deep to start the sixth inning.
Phillips benefited from double-play grounders in the first and sixth innings.
Ben Lively allowed one run and three hits over six innings to fuel the Guardians to a 3-1 victory over the Phillies on Friday.
Lively (9-6), who made his major league debut with the Phillies in 2017, struck out six batters and walked two while snapping a three-start winless streak.
David Fry and Angel Martinez each had an RBI single and Bo Naylor added a run-scoring sacrifice bunt to send Cleveland to its third win in four games.
Philadelphia's Bryson Stott homered to lead off the fifth inning, cutting the hosts' deficit to 3-1. Stott added a single in both the seventh and the ninth for the Phillies, who mustered just six hits and committed two errors en route to losing for the seventh time in 10 games.
Cleveland got off to a fast start. The game's second batter, Martinez, reached on an infield single and advanced to second after Philadelphia's Trea Turner was late to get to the base to finish a rundown. Fry made the Phillies pay for the mental miscue with an RBI single to center field off Cristopher Sanchez (7-6).
The Guardians boosted their lead to 3-0 in the fourth inning. Andres Gimenez reached on a bunt single, stole second and advanced to third on Brayan Rocchio 's single before scoring on Bo Naylor's bunt toward the first base line. Martinez stepped up two batters later and plated Rocchio with a single to left field.
Philadelphia inched closer as Stott deposited a 1-0 sinker from Lively over the wall in right field. The homer was Stott's seventh of the season and first since July 9.
Lively rebounded and retired the side in order in the sixth. Cade Smith and Hunter Gaddis bridged the gap to Emmanuel Clase , who retired the side in the ninth to secure his 32nd save of the season.
Sanchez permitted three runs on eight hits in six innings to absorb his second straight loss. He walked two and fanned two.
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