Kyle Schwarber homered for the second straight night, Bryce Harper, Brandon Marsh and Bryson Stott had three hits each, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies 7-4 in Denver on Tuesday night.
Max Kepler, Alec Bohm and Trea Turner contributed two hits in a 17-hit barrage and Jesus Luzardo (5-0) struck out 10 in six innings for Philadelphia, which has won five in a row.
Luzardo permitted two hits and three walks.
Tyler Freeman had three hits and Ryan McMahon had two singles off the bench for Colorado. The Rockies have lost three straight and seven of their last eight to fall to 8-40 on the season.
Colorado starter Antonio Senzatela (1-8) allowed four runs on 10 hits in six innings. He struck out three and walked one.
The Phillies scored seven runs in the final two innings of their 9-3 win over the Rockies on Monday, and they continued that hot hitting in the first inning on Tuesday.
Stott led off the game with a single and went to third on Turner’s ground-rule double down the right field line. Harper followed with a double to left to bring home both runners. Harper went to third on Schwarber’s lineout to center field and scored on Nick Castellanos’ sacrifice fly for a 3-0 lead.
Colorado got one back in the fourth. Brenton Doyle drew a one-out walk, stole second as Kyle Farmer was caught looking and scored on Freeman’s single to left.
Philadelphia tacked on a run in the fifth on Kepler’s RBI double to make it 4-1, and then expanded the lead in the seventh. Schwarber hit a 430-foot, one-out solo homer to center field, his 17th of the season.
Castellanos followed with a single and went to second on reliever Ryan Rolison’s throwing error. Kepler walked, ending Rolison’s outing, and Bohm and Marsh added RBI singles off Jimmy Herget to make it 7-1.
The Rockies got a run in the bottom of the seventh on Adael Amador’s run-scoring single, but the rally was thwarted when Amador was thrown out trying to go from first to third on McMahon’s pinch-hit single.
Colorado added two runs in the ninth. Mickey Moniak had a pinch-hit RBI single and scored on McMahon’s single.
–Field Level Media
