TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Alec Bohm hit a three-run home run, Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper also went deep, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-4 on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Jes\u00fas Luzardo (5-4) allowed one run in 5 2\/3 innings and Jhoan Duran finished for his 17th save in 18 chances as the Phillies won for the seventh time in nine games.<\/p>\n
Phillies outfielder Adolis Garc\u00eda left in the seventh after making consecutive throws to home plate on sacrifice flies. Steward Berroa came on for Garc\u00eda, who was diagnosed with a pulled muscle in his shoulder.<\/p>\n
Bohm and Harper both homered off Max Scherzer (1-4), who allowed five runs and five hits in 3 1\/3 innings. Bohm\u2019s homer was his eighth and Harper\u2019s solo shot was his 15th.<\/p>\n
Schwarber greeted Mason Fluharty with a two-run homer, his aseball-leading 24th.<\/p>\n
Scherzer reached 3,500 career strikeouts when he caught Schwarber looking at an 86 mph change-up to begin the game. Scherzer walked three and struck out four in 3 1\/3 innings, pushing his career total to 3,503. He allowed five runs and five hits.<\/p>\n
The three-time Cy Young Award winner and eight-time All-Star is the 11th pitcher in big league history with 3,500 strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Luzardo allowed four hits, walked four and struck out eight. The Phillies have won each of his past four starts.<\/p>\n
Brandon Valenzuela chased Luzardo with an RBI single in the sixth. Jonathan Bowlan struck out Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez to strand runners at the corners.<\/p>\n
Toronto activated Scherzer off the 15-day injured list before the game. He\u2019d been out since April 24 because of right forearm tendinitis and left ankle inflammation.<\/p>\n
Phillies: RHP Andrew Painter (1-7, 6.21 ERA) is scheduled to start Friday against Milwaukee RHP Jacob Misiorowski (7-2, 1.50).<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: Toronto had not named a starter for Friday\u2019s game against the Yankees. LHP Ryan Weathers (2-4, 3.86 ERA) is scheduled for New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO (AP) \u2014 Alec Bohm hit a three-run home run, Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper also went deep,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":722863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[1651,2043,5161,5,12906,1207,11714,3276,13041,81,381,4,9500,9501,144,25,4216,40,20419,9496,9497,36947,5902,282],"class_list":["post-722862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-alec-bohm","tag-andres-gimenez","tag-andrew-painter","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-valenzuela","tag-bryce-harper","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jhoan-duran","tag-jonathan-bowlan","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-max-scherzer","tag-mlb","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies","tag-phillies-blue-jays-score","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40809-ap-pennsylvania-sports-only","tag-steward-berroa","tag-toronto"],"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\/722862","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=722862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/722863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}