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Kyle Schwarber crushed 2 home runs in Phillies 6-0 win over the Rockies to extend his streak to four straight games

The Phillies have their first scheduled off day under Don Mattingly on Monday before opening a three-game series in Boston on Tuesday night. Good time to take a breath and acknowledge that Kyle Schwarber is tied with Aaron Judge for the Major League lead in home runs and is on pace to hit 63 this season.

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Kyle Schwarber crushed two more homers Sunday in the 6-0 win over the Rockies to extend his streak to four straight games with a long ball. His season total sits at 16 through 41 games.

Last summer he chased Ryan Howard’s single-season franchise record of 58 and finished with a career-best 56. The pace he’s on right now would blow past it.

The first homer Sunday was a 432-foot bomb to straightaway center off a Tomoyuki Sugano fastball.

Kyle Schwarber HR No. 1

The second was a lined rope into the right-field seats on a first-pitch splitter one inning later. Two at-bats, two homers, two completely different pitches.

Kyle Schwarber HR No. 2

When Kyle Schwarber is in this kind of zone, it genuinely doesn’t matter what the pitcher throws. He’s finding the barrel on everything. The four-game homer streak is the longest by a Phillie since Trea Turner went five straight in August 2023. It matches the longest of Schwarber’s career.

Fenway Park Should Be Fun

Kyle Schwarber is a career .319 hitter with a 1.083 OPS in 30 games at Fenway Park including the postseason. Nine home runs in those 30 games.

He played there at the end of the 2021 season as a member of the Red Sox and clearly felt comfortable in a park built for left-handed power hitters. The short porch in right is basically designed for his swing. If the homer streak extends in Boston, the Howard record conversation is going to pick up serious momentum before June.

Former Phillies lefty Ranger Suarez is scheduled to start Thursday’s series finale for the Red Sox, which adds an interesting wrinkle. Still, the main attraction this week is Kyle Schwarber walking into Fenway tied for the MLB home run lead and swinging the hottest bat in baseball.

The Phillies are 19-22. They have won 10-of-13 under Mattingly. Kyle Schwarber is leading the league in homers. A series in Boston is a good test of whether this turnaround is real or a product of beating up on the Marlins, Athletics, and Rockies for two weeks. Tuesday will tell us something.

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