GAME STORY: It was Austin Gomber’s game on Friday at Coors Field, until Bryce Harper stole the show.
Gomber blanked the Phillies for six innings, but Harper won it at the end. Harper’s two-out, two-run double off Justin Lawrence in the eighth inning was the difference. After the hit, he stole third and then scored on an error as “MVP” chants broke out among the Philly faithful in LoDo.
Gomber set down the first nine hitters he faced, mixing speed and location to have all the Phils off balance. His first-inning strikeouts of Trea Turner and Harper were an omen of the strong outing to come. Gomber was halfway to a perfecto when JT Realmuto dinged him for a double with two outs in the fifth. On Realmuto’s hit to deep left center, Randal Grichkuk missed his cut throwing back into the infield, but C.J. Cron scooped it up and fired it to Ryan McMahon to get Realmuto at third. Realmuto later left the game with a sprained right pinkie from his headfirst slide.
First, Alec Bohn belted Gomber’s belt-high changeup 433-feet into the left-center bleachers to tie the game 1-1. Then, with two outs, Kyle Schwarber blasted a hanging curveball 430-feet to dead center. Gomber squatted in front of the mound and looked to the sky as he watched Schwarber’s homer sail over the fence, giving Philadelphia a 3-1 lead.
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