Daily News | Kyle Schwarber’s two homers power Phillies to 8-4 win over Nationals in Game 1
were waiting for this version of Kyle Schwarber to show up. For the past few weeks, their leadoff hitter hadn’t been hitting much at all. Entering Tuesday’s game, Schwarber had just seven hits over his last 78 at-bats with 22 strikeouts. He walked 21 times in that span, which was encouraging, but he hit only two home runs.
It was an encouraging sign from an offense that hasn’t lived up to its potential for much of this season. The Phillies combined for eight runs on 10 hits in Game 1. The Nationals, who have a combined 4.68 starters ERA and a 5.13 bullpen ERA, don’t have the most formidable pitching staff. But the Phillies capitalized on the Nationals’ mistakes, which isn’t something they’ve consistently done against lesser opponents.
“I just changed up some stuff that I was doing,” Wheeler said. “We thought that I might have been tipping. So, they’ve been hitting me well this year. We just felt like it was time to change a little bit of something. So I did that, and once I did that, the next few innings were better.”
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