PHILADELPHIA — Trea Turner was activated for the final game of the Phillies’ regular season to test his strained hamstring, which went as well as the shortstop would’ve wanted.

Turner, out since Sept. 8 with a Grade 2 strain in his left hamstring, started at shortstop and went 0-for-2 without really testing the hammy all that hard. But it’s another step on the road back to being ready for the Oct. 4 opener of the National League Division Series.

“Just being smart,” Turner said. “Today I felt like, obviously, I could have run harder than I did, because I feel really good. Body feels good. Five innings felt good, and swing feels good. So just more of just getting back out there, being smart and getting ready for Saturday.”

As expected, Turner exited after the fifth inning. He grounded out in two at-bats, neither of them close plays in which he broke hard out of the box. He handled one chance in the field, a routine pop fly.

“I knew if I was going to hit a ground ball somewhere, I wasn’t going to do anything stupid,” Turner said. “Today was just more about getting out there, feeling it again and more seeing pitches and being on defense.”

He added that he hopes to feel confident by Saturday to open it up if he needs to.

Turner finished the season with a .304 average to win the NL batting title. He scored 94 runs, drove in 69 with 15 homers and had an on-base percentage of .356.

Turner won the batting title in 2021, split between Washington and the Dodgers, with a .328 average. He also hit .335 in the shortened 2020 season.

He’s the first Phillie to win the batting title since Richie Ashburn in 1958, his second crown.

“I think it’s cool,” he said. “I think only one guy gets it in each league, which makes it tough. Can’t vote on it, stuff like that. I think it makes it cool. I think the ERA title and the batting title are cool awards, and I think it just means you had a consistent year, a good year. It’s hard, hard to compete with 150 hitters or however many there are. It’s rewarding.”

Turner’s 179 hits finished two behind Luis Arraez for the most in the NL. Turner played 13 fewer games than the San Diego infielder.

With Turner activated, Max Lazar was optioned off the 28-man roster. That move makes the right-handed reliever ineligible to be added to the roster for the NLDS.

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Manager Rob Thomson said before Sunday’s game that he “couldn’t see” starter Cristopher Sanchez going more than five innings in his final regular-season start.

Sunday wasn’t the first time Sanchez found a way to surprise him.

The uber-efficient lefty needed 60 pitches to get through 5.2 innings without allowing a run on two hits in the Phillies’ 2-1 win over the Twins. He started the game with 21 consecutive strikes, the first starting pitcher to do that since at least 2000, per Elias Sports.

Sanchez and Thomson had a brief conversation on the mound, where Thomson told Sanchez that “about 44,000 people thin I’m an idiot right now.” The manager gave him the extra part of an inning so that fans could salute the Cy Young finalist, who tipped his cap as he exited.

“It’s really special for me,” Sanchez said via a translator. “And I just t give back what I receive from them, which is a lot of love. So that’s what I try to do out there, and it’s really special and the fans deserve it.”

Sanchez will start Game 1 of the NLDS on Oct. 4. He finishes with a 2.50 ERA, third in the National League behind the 1.97 of presumptive Cy Young Paul Skenes. He struck out 212 batters in 202 innings, the latter figure higher than Skenes (187.2) or the other NL pitcher with a lower ERA, Los Angeles’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto (173.2).

Sanchez posted a 1.65 ERA in five September starts.

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Shohei Ohtani hit his 55th homer of the season Sunday but finished one behind Kyle Schwarber for the National League lead. Schwarber’s 56 bombs were two away from Ryan Howard’s franchise record in 2006.

Schwarber had 132 RBIs to be the first Phillie to lead the NL in RBIs since Howard’s 141 in 2009 tied with Prince Fielder, Howard’s third title in four years. Schwarber also led the NL in homers in his first season as a Phillie with 46 in 2022.

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NOTES >> The Phillies won 96 games, the sixth-most in franchise history. Their 35 series wins is a franchise record, including a 22-3-1 mark in 26 at home. … Nick Castellanos’ walk-off sacrifice fly was the team’s fifth of the season. It’s the first time the Phillies have walked off with a win in game No. 162 since Paul Hoover’s walk-off single in 2009. … Max Kepler hit a solo homer in the eighth inning, his second off a lefty this year. He finishes third on the team in home runs, trailing Schwarber and Bryce Harper (27). … Garrett Stubbs got his first plate appearance of the season, after four appearances as a pinch-runner or defensive replacement. He got a rousing ovation from the Citizens Bank Park fans, then grounded out to first base. … The Phillies sold out CBP Sunday, the 40th time in 81 home dates. Their season attendance of 3,375,457 fans surpasses last year’s tally by just under 12,000 and ranks sixth in club history. The record of 3,777,322 was set in 2010, followed by 2011, 2009, 2012 and 2008.