TORONTO – The Philadelphia Phillies homered three times and held off a late push from Toronto as they defeated the Blue Jays 7-4 on Wednesday at Rogers Centre.<\/p>\n
Alec Bohm\u2019s three-run home run in the third inning put the Phillies up 4-0. Kyle Schwarber extended the lead in the fourth with a two-run home run.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays scored three runs in the seventh inning off a bases-loaded walk and a pair of sacrifice flies, but the rally would fall short as the Phillies (37-31) won their third straight series. The loss ended Toronto\u2019s (33-36) streak of series victories at home at three.<\/p>\n
Phillies starter Jes\u00fas Luzardo (5-4) allowed one run on four hits over 5 2\/3 innings with four walks and eight strikeouts. Jonathan Bowlan, Chase Shugart, Brad Keller and Jos\u00e9 Alvarado pitched in relief. Jhoan Duran earned his 17th save.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer (1-4) returned from a stint on the injured list and recorded his 3,500th career strikeout on the first batter he faced. But the 41-year-old lasted just 3 1\/3 innings, allowing five runs on five hits with three walks and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Bryce Harper opened the scoring with a solo home run in the first.<\/p>\n
Adolis Garcia exited the game in the seventh with a pulled muscle in his right shoulder.<\/p>\n
Takeaways<\/p>\n
Phillies: Luzardo continued to impress on the road. The left-hander has a 1.55 ERA when he starts an away game compared to a 7.34 ERA at home.<\/p>\n
Blue Jays: The Blue Jays continued to lean heavily on their bullpen, using six relievers to get through 5 2\/3 innings. Before Wednesday\u2019s game, Toronto ranked second in the American League in innings pitched by relievers (290 2\/3 IP).<\/p>\n
Key moment<\/p>\n
In the third, Toronto appeared to complete a 3-6-1 double play on a ground ball from Harper, but after review, the call was overturned. Two batters later, Bohm homered.<\/p>\n
Key stat<\/p>\n
Scherzer became the 11th player in Major League Baseball history to record 3,500 career strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
The Blue Jays are off on Thursday before the New York Yankees visit for a three-game series beginning Friday. The Phillies are also off on Thursday before starting a three-game set against the Brewers in Milwaukee on Friday.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 10, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO – The Philadelphia Phillies homered three times and held off a late push from Toronto as they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[90379,7239,5,2314,2317,2313,2413,2335,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,4101,185],"class_list":["post-723245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-2021-philadelphia-phillies-season","tag-2022-philadelphia-phillies-season","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-home-run","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-relief-pitcher","tag-sports"],"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\/723245","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=723245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}