Phillies offense awakens in 13-7 beatdown of the Chicago Cubs
The Phillies put a 13-7 beatdown on the Chicago Cubs on Monday night at Citizens Bank Park and for the first time all season the offense looked like the offense everyone expected.
Fifteen hits. Runs in six different innings. Eight for fourteen with runners in scoring position. Every starter except Justin Crawford had at least one hit. This is what this lineup is supposed to look like and Monday was the first real glimpse of it in 2026.
The team is 8-8 and it is still early. But this one felt like something.
Schwarber hit two homers. His first was a solo shot in the first to give Sanchez an early lead. His second was a two-run blast crushed to center in the third.
Kyle Schwarber Home Run No. 1
Kyle Schwarber Home Run No. 2
JT Realmuto had three hits. Brandon Marsh had three hits including a first inning single where he swiped second with two outs and scored on a Realmuto bloop to make it 2-0.
Brandon Marsh
Bryson Stott
Adolis Garcia batted cleanup and broke out of an 0-for-11 skid with two hits and an RBI.
Alec Bohm ended an 0-for-17 stretch with a base hit in the third and added a sacrifice fly later. This lineup has been waiting to do this for two weeks and Monday night everyone contributed.
JT Realmuto
Adolis Garcia
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The Cubs made it a little interesting when Seth Johnson gave up five runs in the eighth to cut it from 13-2 to 13-7 but the game was never really in doubt after the five-run fifth.
Sanchez was sharp on the back of the offensive support. Six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts. Both runs came on a Dansby Swanson two-run homer in the fourth.
After striking out Shaw to end that inning Sanchez looked directly into the Cubs dugout. He said initially there was nothing behind it. Then he acknowledged they know why he looked in that direction and declined to say anything further. Love that energy.
Bryce Harper said the Phillies are playing bad baseball and the numbers back that up completely
After the offense shit the bed through the first fifteen games, the most important stat from Monday is 8-for-14 with runners in scoring position.
The Phillies had been a disaster in those situations all season. One good night does not fix the underlying numbers but it is a start and the whole lineup contributing at once is exactly the kind of performance that can get a team rolling.
Nola goes Tuesday against Colin Rea. Build on it.
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Not to be a downer but the Cubs pitchers are the ones that made this team look like a bunch of all starts. Like you said there is still issues with the team just based on the numbers, but I find this win hardly worth celebrating.
robots haven’t taken over yet – just sitting in the drafts from earlier today and i published each at the same time lol