BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Kyle Schwarber hit his major league-leading 18th home run, a two-run shot that broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning, and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Boston Red Sox 3-1 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Schwarber has seven homers in his last seven games, the first Phillies player to hit at least that many in a similar span since current teammate Trea Turner in 2023. Schwarber’s towering shot in this one cleared the visiting bullpen in right field and traveled an estimated 417 feet.<\/p>\n
Bryson Stott added an insurance run later in the eighth on an infield hit on which he was initially called out, but it was overturned after the Phillies challenged.<\/p>\n
Brad Keller (2-1) struck out two in one relief inning for the win and Jhoan Duran fanned the side in the ninth for his seventh save.<\/p>\n
Wilyer Abreu\u2019s RBI single in the eighth accounted for Boston\u2019s lone run. The Red Sox wrapped up a homestand during which they dropped two of three in series against Tampa Bay and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
Boston reliever Tyler Samaniego (0-1) hadn\u2019t allowed a homer in his first 13 career MLB games, spanning 15 innings, before getting taken deep by Schwarber, who also struck out three times.<\/p>\n
Neither starter factored in the decision. Boston\u2019s Ranger Suarez went 5 1\/3 scoreless innings and struck out eight, while Philadelphia\u2019s Jesus Luzardo fanned four in six scoreless innings. In his previous start, Luzardo was tagged for six runs in just three innings.<\/p>\n
The start of the game was delayed by 22 minutes because of rain.<\/p>\n
Phillies: Travel to Pittsburgh for a three-game series that begins Friday night. Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (2-3, 5.14) is scheduled to oppose Pirates RHP Braxton Ashcraft (2-2, 2.77).<\/p>\n
Red Sox: Open a three-game series in Atlanta on Friday with LHP Connelly Early (3-2, 3.16) facing Braves RHP Spencer Strider (1-0, 2.89).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Kyle Schwarber hit his major league-leading 18th home run, a two-run shot that broke a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699441,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1206,5,141,7798,1715,36543,6,3276,81,4,9500,9501,144,25,4216,40,87948,9496,9497,22856,88106,83947,88107,36947,86147,88108,90,773,1713,60782,606],"class_list":{"0":"post-699440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-phillies","8":"tag-aaron-nola","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-brad-keller","12":"tag-bryson-stott","13":"tag-connelly-early","14":"tag-jesus-luzardo","15":"tag-jhoan-duran","16":"tag-kyle-schwarber","17":"tag-mlb","18":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","19":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","20":"tag-philadelphia","21":"tag-philadelphia-phillies","22":"tag-philadelphiaphillies","23":"tag-phillies","24":"tag-phillies-red-sox-score","25":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","26":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","27":"tag-product-40778-ap-connecticut-sports-only","28":"tag-product-40790-ap-maine-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40791-ap-massachusetts-sports-only","30":"tag-product-40799-ap-new-hampshire-sports-only","31":"tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","32":"tag-product-40811-ap-rhode-island-sports-only","33":"tag-product-40817-ap-vermont-sports-only","34":"tag-ranger-suarez","35":"tag-spencer-strider","36":"tag-trea-turner","37":"tag-tyler-samaniego","38":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}