Edmundo Sosa homered and finished with four hits, Alec Bohm hit a two-run homer and added a single, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the struggling Colorado Rockies 9-3 in Denver on Monday night.
Kyle Schwarber homered off the facing of the third deck for the 300th of his career, Trea Turner had three hits, Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and Brandon Marsh added two hits apiece and Joe Ross (2-1) pitched a scoreless inning of relief for Philadelphia, which has won four straight.
Ezequiel Tovar homered, singled and drove in two runs for Colorado, which lost for the sixth time in seven games.
Philadelphia trailed by a run entering the eighth but scored four times off Seth Halvorsen (0-1). Castellanos led off with a single, and one out later, Bohm homered to center, his third of the season.
Sosa and Marsh singled on either side of a flyout, and Turner brought them home with a double.
Schwarber blasted a 466-foot homer in the ninth inning, his 16th of the season. Sosa added a two-run shot later in the inning, his first of the year.
The Rockies took the lead on Tovar’s solo homer off Cristopher Sanchez in the first inning, and Tovar helped pad the lead in the third. With two outs, Jordan Beck hustled out a double and came around on Tovar’s single to right.
Philadelphia broke through against Rockies starter Kyle Freeland in the fifth inning. With one out, Turner tripled into the right field corner, his second three-bagger of the season, and scored on Harper’s single to left.
Freeland limited the damage by getting Schwarber looking and Castellanos on a lineout to right. He allowed a run on seven hits and two walks while striking out six in 5 1/3 innings, just missing out on his second straight quality start.
He was denied his first win of the season after Philadelphia rallied off the bullpen.
Colorado stretched its lead to 3-1 in the sixth on consecutive two-out doubles by Michael Toglia and Brenton Doyle, but the Phillies answered in the seventh on Harper’s sacrifice fly off Jake Bird.
–Field Level Media
