Nola, Schwarber lead Phillies to a 3-game sweep of Cardinals with a 3-0 victory

PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola allowed one hit and struck out 9 in seven sharp innings, Kyle Schwarber homered and the NL wild-card main Philadelphia Phillies accomplished a three-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals with a 3-0 victory Sunday.

Johan Rojas doubled amongst his three hits and Bryce Harper hit an RBI single for the defending NL champion Phillies, who outscored the Cardinals 22-3 within the collection.

“Our offense was really good the entire series, we played really good defense and our pitching was outstanding,” Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson stated.

José Alvarado tossed a scoreless eighth and Craig Kimbrel accomplished the two-hit shutout together with his twentieth save in 22 tries with a scoreless ninth.

“We’re hitting our stride when we want to,” Schwarber stated. “We have to keep pushing, keep going.”

St. Louis has dropped 9 of 11 and was shut out for the eleventh time. Philadelphia pitched its fourth shutout – solely Boston and Washington have fewer with three.

PHOTOS: Nola, Schwarber lead Phillies to a 3-game sweep of Cardinals with a 3-0 victory

After Tommy Edman led off the sport with a double, Nola (12-8) retired 21 of the following 22 batters.

“I really felt like I had to get in the zone,” Nola stated after Edman’s at-bat. “They were three uncompetitive pitches.”

A one-out stroll within the fifth to Nolan Gorman was the one blemish over that stretch and the right-hander’s solely free move of the day. St. Louis didn’t get one other hit till Paul Goldschmidt’s one-out double off Kimbrel.

“Nola was fantastic,” Thomson stated. “Kept them off balance.”

Among the NL leaders in strikeouts and innings pitched, Nola upped his season totals to 174 Okay’s and 167⅓ innings. The 30-year-old didn’t enable a house run for the fifth time in 27 begins.

Schwarber hit the primary pitch of the sport from Drew Rom (0-2) deep into the bushes in heart discipline. The 436-foot shot was the thirty sixth house run for Schwarber, who led the NL with 46 in 2022. It additionally was his twenty seventh profession leadoff homer and seventh this season.

The Phillies went up 2-0 within the fifth on Trea Turner’s sacrifice fly that scored Rojas, and so they took a three-run lead within the seventh on Harper’s opposite-field single.

“The team has been mashing the baseball,” Nola stated.

Rom, acquired in a commerce from Baltimore on Aug. 1, gave up these two runs on 5 hits in 5⅓ innings. He struck out six and walked one. It was the second profession outing for the 23-year-old lefty, who surrendered six runs in 3⅔ innings in his debut in an 11-1 loss at Pittsburgh on Aug. 21.

“He kept guys more off balance than his first outing,” Cardinals supervisor Oliver Marmol stated. “That was a much better outing.”

CURT’S COMPANY

Nola tied Curt Schilling for fifth place on Philadelphia’s profession strikeouts record with 1,554.

EXTRA! EXTRA!

Schwarber has an extra-base hit in six consecutive contests.

BANK BROOM

Sunday marked Philadelphia’s first collection sweep of the Cardinals at Citizens Bank Park, which opened in 2004.

BASERUNNING BLUNDER

Edman was thrown out at second base within the first inning after breaking towards third on Paul Goldschmidt’s grounder to deep shortstop. St. Louis would’ve had runners on first and second with one out.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cardinals: Placed RHP Guillermo Zuñiga (proper forearm pressure) on the 15-day injured record, retroactive to Friday, and recalled RHP James Naile from Triple-A Memphis. … 3B Nolan Arenado returned to the lineup after sitting out Saturday’s sport with decrease again tightness. … OF Tyler O’Neill (knee) was in Marmol’s authentic lineup earlier than being changed by Richie Palacios.

Phillies: LHP Ranger Suárez will throw batting follow to hitters Monday. He has been sidelined since Aug. 16 with a strained proper hamstring.

UP NEXT

Cardinals: Begin a six-game homestand Monday evening when St. Louis RHP Adam Wainwright (3-9, 8.61) faces Padres LHP Blake Snell (10-9, 2.73).

Phillies: Open three-game collection in opposition to the Angels on Monday evening. Phillies RHP Taijuan Walker (13-5, 4.02) opposes Los Angeles RHP Lucas Giolito (7-10, 4.32).