{"id":733842,"date":"2026-06-23T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733842\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T23:15:21","slug":"why-was-phillies-slugger-kyle-schwarber-scratched-from-lineup-right-before-game-against-nationals-phillies-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/733842\/","title":{"rendered":"Why was Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber scratched from lineup right before game against Nationals? \u2013 Phillies Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231176\" style=\"width:400px\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/132250519107_phi_at_col.jpg\"\/>Kyle Schwarber was scratched on Tuesday. (Photo by Dustin Bradford\/Icon Sportswire)<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber, the big-league leader in home runs, was scratched from Philadelphia\u2019s lineup just before first pitch on Tuesday night. The Nationals had already taken the field at Nationals Park when the Phillies announced that Schwarber was out due to tightness in his lower back.<\/p>\n<p>Edmundo Sosa replaced Schwarber as the designated hitter in the updated batting order, sliding into the eighth spot against right-hander Zack Littell.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarber is batting .252 with 29 home runs and a .959 OPS. He played in 75 of the Phillies\u2019 first 78 games, starting as the DH in 72 of them.<\/p>\n<p>This story will be updated with more information.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/phillies-nation-logo-transparent.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Schwarber was scratched on Tuesday. (Photo by Dustin Bradford\/Icon Sportswire) WASHINGTON \u2014 Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":733843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2397],"tags":[5,4,144,25,4216,40],"class_list":["post-733842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia-phillies","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-philadelphiaphillies","tag-phillies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116801970111541386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733842","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=733842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}