Schwarber picks up two clutch hits in comeback win

Every day, Phillies supervisor Rob Thomson posts his lineup with Schwarber within the leadoff spot. Every day, a vocal group of Phillies followers expresses confusion or frustration (or each) as a result of Schwarber is much from a prototypical leadoff hitter. Schwarber is hitting beneath .200 this season. He doesn’t run nicely. No matter. Thomson loves Schwarber hitting leadoff as a result of he will get on base and he hits dwelling runs — and he continuously scares the bejeezus out of opposing pitchers.

Schwarber rewarded Thomson once more in Saturday afternoon’s 6-4 victory over the Padres in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Citizens Bank Park. First, he crushed a game-tying solo dwelling run to heart subject within the seventh. Then, he singled to heart within the eighth inning to convey dwelling the Phillies’ go-ahead run.

The victory snapped the Phillies’ three-game shedding streak.

Philadelphia trailed the Padres within the eighth, 4-3, when Bryson Stott reached first base on an error. Brandon Marsh’s one-out single to proper put runners on the corners because of Stott’s aggressive baserunning.

Thomson despatched Bryce Harper to the plate to pinch-hit for Johan Rojas, who was making his Major League debut. Harper hit a chopper to Padres shortstop Xander Bogaerts, who threw to first; Stott scored the tying run as Harper beat the throw. Schwarber adopted along with his go-ahead single to heart, and the Phillies by no means seemed again.