Alec Bohm went deep in his return and the Phillies finished their road trip Sunday with a high-scoring win over the Nationals.
WASHINGTON — The Phillies had mixed results from their returnees Sunday. Alec Bohm homered and Aaron Nola couldn’t last three innings. Ultimately, Nola’s struggles didn’t stop the Phillies from earning an offense-heavy win at Nationals Park.
They secured a four-game series split in D.C. with an 11-9 victory. Nola started his first MLB game since mid-May. He’d first been sidelined by an ankle injury, then a right rib stress fracture. Over 2 and 1/3 innings, Nola allowed seven hits and six runs, raising his season ERA to 6.92 in 10 starts. He struck out four and walked one. Bohm was back after nearly a month out with his own rib injury. The Phils' third baseman had a 2-for-4 outing highlighted by a second-inning long ball. Nats lefty Mitchell Parker started the day by throwing six consecutive balls and the Phillies put runners on the corners for Bohm. It looked like he’d bounced into a first-pitch double-play, but third baseman Brady House botched his grounder, Kyle Schwarber scored and Bryce Harper advanced to third base.The Phils kept the pressure on Parker, who issued an eight-pitch walk to Bryson Stott in the second inning. Schwarber poked a two-out RBI hit to right field and Harper served a two-strike slider into center, extending the Phils’ lead to 3-0. One Bohm swing doubled that advantage. He cracked a 3-1 heater into the Phillies’ bullpen for his ninth home run of the season. Parker departed. “Especially not being here for a while, it feels really good to contribute and help the team win a game," Bohm said. “Just happy to be back, happy to be healthy.”He navigated nicely around Luis Garcia Jr’s leadoff single in the first. The 32-year-old righty struck out Paul DeJong with a good curveball and got Daylen Lile to pop up with a well-located up-and-in cutter. Nola’s third inning was a rapid downward spiral. Robert Hassell III, Garcia and CJ Abrams all had one-out singles. DeJong walked and Lile lined a two-RBI hit. The Nationals took aggressive cuts at just about anything Nola threw over the plate. They also found plenty of gaps. Dylan Crews hit a grounder down the third-base line, Bohm couldn’t make a diving backhand pick, and two more Nats sprinted home. After Jose Tena’s double to right-center tied the game at 6-all, Nola’s day was done. “Body felt good," Nola said. “Rib and ankle felt good, arm felt really good. Just had trouble stopping it today, getting a swing and miss or getting them to hit a ball to one of our guys. And they capitalized on some pitches, a couple of them that I yanked and a few of them I didn’t get to the spot I wanted.” The game became a battle of the bullpens. For the Phillies, Tanner Banks successfully finished off the third. The runs continued to flow in the fourth inning. Bohm flared a single to center and Nick Castellanos drove a ground-rule double to left, his first extra-base hit in over two weeks. Weston Wilson then delivered a go-ahead, two-RBI knock. Castellanos added an emphatic insurance run in the sixth inning, smoking an 0-2 Shinnosuke Ogasawara fastball 428 feet. The Phils tacked on two more against a wild Konnor Pilkington in the seventh. The Phils’ ‘pen was largely excellent after Nola’s early exit. Banks, Joe Ross and Matt Strahm carried the Phillies through the seventh inning. Max Lazar pitched a clean eighth inning, but he found trouble in the ninth. DeJong bashed a three-run homer and Jhoan Duran warmed up. Lile doubled to left-center and Phillies manager Rob Thomson brought in his closer. Duran won a nine-pitch encounter vs. Crews, inducing a groundout to shortstop. He slammed the door shut by striking out pinch-hitter James Wood on a 101.6 mph fastball. “Banks and Joe Ross did a great job," Thomson said. “Strahm did a great job holding the game down. ... That was huge for us, it really was. I’m really proud of this group. “On this 10-day road trip we go 6-4, but there were a lot of things that could’ve gone sideways on us with travel, with rain delays and things like that. They held up and they answered, so it was good to see.”The Phillies will open a six-game homestand Monday night. They’ll host the Mariners for three games and then see the Nats again next weekend.
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