CLEVELAND, Ohio — Tanner Bibee picked the wrong night to have one of his best starts of the season.

Bibee pitched seven strong innings Saturday night for the second time in eight starts this season, but lefty Ranger Suarez was just a bit better as the Guardians fell to the Phillies, 7-1, in front of a sellout crowd at Progressive Field.

The loss was just the third in the last 11 games for the Guardians. The Phillies have won 10 of their last 13 games.

Until the Phillies erupted for six runs with two out in the eighth, they held a slim 1-0 lead over Bibee and the Guardians for seven tense innings.

The one run came in the fourth off the bat of Kyle Schwarber, who has haunted the Guardians/Indians since the 2016 World Series.

The base hit extended Schwarber’s on-base streak to 45 straight games going back to September. He is tied for the fourth longest on-base streak by a Phillies player since 1900.

Bibee (3-3, 3.80) retired the first 10 men he faced before Trea Turner bounced a one-out single past second baseman Will Wilson. Harper doubled off the wall in left field to send Turner to third.

First baseman Kyle Manzardo made a nice play for the second out of the inning by reaching into the photographer’s box at the far end of the Phillies dugout to retire Nick Castellanos on a foul pop.

Bibee, however, couldn’t get past Schwarber. He had him down in the count 0-2 when Schwarber muscled a ball into short left field to score Turner for a 1-0 lead.

“He’s reached base in 45 straight games, so he’s going to have some hits like that,” said Bibee. “They hit some balls hard tonight that were caught. That’s just baseball.”

The Guardians, meanwhile, couldn’t do anything against Suarez (1-0, 5.91). This was Suarez’s second start of the season after opening the year on the injured list with a stiff back.

In his first start on May 4, Suarez allowed seven runs on seven hits in 3 2/3 innings against Arizona. That version of Suarez was nowhere to be found Saturday night.

Suarez waltzed through a lineup that scored 32 runs in the last four games. Carlos Santana opened the second with a single, but was erased on a double play grounder by Manzardo. Wilson singled to left in the third, but was forced at second. Jose Ramirez singled to left with one out in the seventh.

That was the extent of the damage.

Suarez, between Wilson’s single in the third and Ramirez’s single in the seventh, retired 12 straight. After Ramirez singled, he stole second after getting picked off first. The Phillies challenged, but the safe call by second base umpire Brian Walsh stood after a long review.

But even that couldn’t get the Guardians’ offense going as Suarez struck out Manzardo to end the inning.

“Suarez was really good tonight,” said manager Stephen Vogt. “I also thought we weren’t great offensively. It was hard to get something going.

“We needed to be better offensively to win that game.”

Bibee, in allowing one run, gave up five hits, didn’t walk a batter and struck out three in 96 pitches.

“My cutter and slider were my bread and butter,” said Bibee. “It kept them off the sinker and the four-seamer (fastball).”

Suarez held the Guardians scoreless over seven innings. He struck out five, walked one and allowed three hits in 82 pitches.

“He threw a lot of strikes at the bottom of the zone and that led to a lot of chase (swinging and missing),” said Vogt.

The Phillies dropped the hammer in eighth. Jakob Junis relieved Bibee and retired the first two batters he faced before Turner singled. Vogt called for lefty Joey Cantillo with lefties Harper and Schwarber due to bat.

Harper hit a 1-0 pitch for a two-run homer and a 3-0 lead. Schwarber followed with a single as the inning spun out of control for Cantillo.

Max Kepler added a two-run double, while Brandon Marsh and Edmundo Sosa, who started the inning with a strikeout, added RBI singles.

Vogt, with the game out of reach, let Cantillo finish. He allowed five runs on seven hits in 1 1/3 innings as his ERA jumped from 1.96 to 4.12.

“They just jumped Joey,” said Vogt. “He made the mistake to Harper and it happened quick. There was a little lack of execution.

“We’ve seen Joey be really good. Tonight wasn’t his night.”

Santana’s sacrifice fly in the ninth prevented the Guardians from being shut out. The sacrifice fly gave Santana 1,100 RBI for his career. He’s the sixth active player to do it. He is one of only 18 switch-hitters in MLB history to drive in that many runs.

Next

RHP Luis Ortiz (2-3, 5.30) vs. RHP Zack Wheeler (3-1, 3.35) Sunday at 7:10 p.m. ESPN will televise the game. WTAM 1100 and the Guardians radio network will broadcast the game.