Schwarber Slams Three Homers As Harper Hits For Cycle In Phils 15-3 Trouncing Of Mets
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The New York Mets turned to their erstwhile ace, Freddy Peralta, to clinch their big series against the Philadelphia Phillies against Cristopher Sanchez tonight, but Peralta came up very small as he gave up ten runs in 2-2/3 innings and the Mets got trounced, 15-3.
This game got ugly right out of the gate as Bryce Harper homered off Peralta in the first to make it 1-0 as he took the first step in hitting for the cycle. But the Phillies were just getting started--they got two more in the third on an Alec Bohm single followed by a pair of doubles from J.L. Realmuto and Justin Crawford, and Peralta came completely undone in the third.
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The Phillies batted around in that inning, and Kyle Schwarber homered twice. The eight-run rally made it 13-0, and the rest of what happened was basically window dressing.
That window dressing included Mark Vientos hitting a solo home run of Sanchez to get the Mets on the board in the fourth inning, and Carson Benge hit a two-run shot in the seventh to make it 13-3. But Schwarber made it clear that it was his night and his team’s as he hit his third home run of the night in the bottom of that same inning, and his two-run bomb made it 15-3.
Schwarber did get competition for player of the game from Harper, who followed up on his home run by singling again in the same inning, then doubling in the third and completing his cycle by hitting a triple in the fifth.
Sanches pitched six innings of one-run ball as he struck out five, while infield Zack Short was the Mets’ most effective pitcher of the night as he pitched a scoreless eighth. Peralta saw his ERA rise to a ghastly 4.83 after he gave up ten runs, all of them earned.
Each outing like this for Peralta combined with games like this for the Mets increase the odds that he’ll be traded at the deadline, and it’s hard to remember the optimism that encompassed the franchise when the Mets first traded for him.
If there was any good news connected with all this, it’s that it was just one loss and the series is now tied at 1-1. They’ll send David Peterson to the mound against Zack Wheeler for the Phillies, although Peterson’s recent outings don’t exactly inspire confidence in the possibility of a series win.