Every day, Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson posts his lineup with Schwarber within the leadoff spot. Every day, a vocal group of Phillies followers expresses confusion or frustration (or each) as a result of Schwarber is much from a prototypical leadoff hitter. Schwarber is hitting beneath .200 this season. He doesn’t run properly. No matter. Thomson loves Schwarber hitting leadoff as a result of he will get on base and he hits residence runs — and he steadily scares the bejeezus out of opposing pitchers.
Schwarber rewarded Thomson once more in Saturday afternoon’s 6-4 victory over the Padres in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park. First, he crushed a game-tying solo residence run to middle subject within the seventh. Then, he singled to middle within the eighth inning to deliver residence the Phillies’ go-ahead run.
The victory snapped the Phillies’ three-game shedding streak.
Philadelphia trailed the Padres within the eighth, 4-3, when Bryson Stott reached first base on an error. Brandon Marsh’s one-out single to proper put runners on the corners due to Stott’s aggressive baserunning.
Thomson despatched Bryce Harper to the plate to pinch-hit for Johan Rojas, who was making his Major League debut. Harper hit a chopper to Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who threw to first; Stott scored the tying run as Harper beat the throw. Schwarber adopted together with his go-ahead single to middle, and the Phillies by no means regarded again.
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