Braves vs. Phillies Game Highlights (8_28_25) _ MLB Highlights

It is Star Wars night here at Citizens Bank Park if the season ended today and obviously isn't the Phillies would be in the wildcard round where they would host the New York Mets. Marano taking the mound for the Bills both started the year to it. Seventy picked up his first win since May and his last outing is six point five to E.R.A. No strikeouts in franchise history so Aaron can move past Cole Hamels with a solid night tonight. So a single for profile a walk strike for Matt Olson. You're looking at danger already in this first inning. Too quiet in here right now. It's very quiet. Rob Thompson did say after that sweep last night in New York that in the clubhouse it felt like it does in the stadium right now. Little tense a little quiet Baldwin reaches for it and singles to center profile weighted a beat. So he stops it third but the Braves have them loaded. Well it's going to lead to an early mound visit here to talk with Aaron Nola. So far Aaron's allowed six runs in the first inning of games this year. The Braves have left with a golden opportunity. Bases loaded one out the bat in the hands of one of their hottest hitters. How's he all these. That messes inside Nola walks in the first run of the game. What a professional bat there by Ozzie can't find it and they are balls. I mean these are balls that he's throwing up there. Pretty good at bat right there by all these. And it brings Michael Harris to the plate Harris since the All-Star break has been one of the hottest hitters in baseball. Michael Harris lines it to right Kepler. It is over his head and off the wall. Braves are going to score a couple here and it is three to nothing and already some boos at Citizens Bank Park. We're only in the first inning of game one of this four game set. That ball was hit so hard I don't think anybody got a good read on it. You didn't know if Kepler was going to catch it in right if he was going to get out of the park and get off the fence ends up with two runs for the Bravos there. Now we're getting into a danger zone with the number of pitches that he's thrown in this inning to absolutely and a call strike three. We are the outside corner. There's our number two first strikeout of the night. That'll bring up Nacho Alvarez where it goes from first pitch take it outside throw to second base and here comes Alvarez the throw to the plate. He is out at home. The Braves will look at it and he's not going to review it. I'm going to check it. Well that was huge. The Phillies give up three runs in the inning could have been worse as Scott came in front of the bag and fired it back home. And it's two for two out at the plate a caught stealing Al Contreau where the Phillies have seen already this year when he was with the Marlins. This is his second start with the Braves since the Marlins waved it down over his last 20 over his last twenty two is his longest stretch in his career. Last hit was his forty fifth home run of the year against Seattle and that one is smoked deep to right field. Tom Swarmer is forty six with the year. It's his fifth home run in his last 10 games against the Braves that will end the drought Soto shot the Phillies get one back. It's three to one to one pitch was just a hangar and exactly what Kyle needed. Tom four hundred fifty feet into the second deck. That thing was still going up when it was the second deck offensive way base hit where nobody's standing. Give that one baby Harper's hitting streak is up to eleven. So many times over the last few years when they've needed a big home run it seems like Kyle Schwab is a guy to sort of let everybody exhale a little bit. He'll hit one early in a game and everybody just feels a little bit better. That one is blasted to the second deck rival second deck home run and J.T. is just tied this ball game up in the first. It's a three three game 11th home run of the season for Muto. Dorothy said at best time there's no place like home. What a great answer back by the Philadelphia Phillies right here. Runner at first and only one down in the business of the mound for Drake Baldwin to go up there and try to calm down his pitcher Kyle Guadalupe Kepler hitting two sixteen but he's been picking it up of late that one has hit well deep to right field and the Phillies have taken the lead three home runs here in the first inning. Kepler's 14th of the year it's by three Phillies the Phillies third home run in the first inning of Montreal and you don't think they like being back at home. My goodness and all three of these home runs have been no doubters. What a turn of events. Bryce Harper will leave things off for the Phillies as we go to the last half of the third inning. Phillies leading this one five to three. That one's wet deep to right field Acuna doesn't even move another second deck home run towering shots twenty two on the year for Bryce the fourth home run so far tonight for the Phillies and it's six to three fills four hundred forty two feet that have gone into the second deck two and right one and left. He had never given up four home runs in a game until tonight. Aaron's line so far thirty seven pitches three earned runs in the first inning and now he's got a three run lead to work with and maybe he can kind of massage the next few innings. Swing and a miss. That's the third strikeout that moves him into a tie with Cole Hamels for third most strikeouts all time in Philly's history. Come on Aaron get one more so we can talk some practical Vader's last seven games ten for twenty one couple of doubles a Homer a twelve seventy four OPS later to center field well struck going back as Harris back toward the wall and it's off the wall and Vader's around second heading to third he's on his way and he will get their first triple of the year for Harrison Bader. It's his third extra base hit against Wachtel in his career and that ball was absolutely teed up by the Braves are going to play the infield in with Bryson Scott coming up. Yeah I think they have to. Can't just let an easy run go here. Drive base and it's a right field. Bader did slip but it's a coast home RBI single for Scott. He had been over his last seven. It's now seven three bills. Yes that's what you like right there. You know infield then you hit a hard line drive unless it's right Adam that they're not going to catch it. Eight hits now for the Phillies seven runs on eight hits line drive into left field a base hit that's going to go to the wall. Scott is blazing around three bills. That is going to be all she wrote for Cal Cuadro. A tough one here tonight and Austin Cox is the new pitchers thirteenth game Phillies with nine hits already were just in the fourth inning. Schwab Rowe homered in the first. That one is drilled deep to right field toward the second home run of the night. This one a two run shot. Forty seven on the. I think the slump might be over. Kyle Schwerber with his 18 home run off a left handed pitcher which matches the club record for a left handed batter off left handed pitching a record that was set in nineteen twenty nine. Real Muto takes his base so back to back walks here from Austin Cox two outs ninth man to bat in this inning is Alec Bohm. That was it sharply into left field. Everybody has a hit Harper will score real Muto's around third. He's going to score. Brokaw couldn't cut it off. It's at the heads just keep on coming. So to the runs and the Phillies getting a few days worth of frustrations out here tonight on this Braves pitching staff everyone has a hit on here. Everyone scored a run. The runners at first and second that'll be a base hit for Trey Turner. So now it's Kyle Schwerber to the plate. He has brought these fans to their feet not once but twice thirty fifth multi hit game of the season. That was the opposite way back. It's carrying pretty well. It is good. It's a three homerun night. It's his fourth one of his career. He decided to go up. Fifteen three Bills it's a three run homer. It's a six RBI night for the Phillies slugger. Everybody's standing and chanting MVP is Kyle Schwerber heads to the dugout with a huge night in progress. Only the fifth inning it's 15 to three Phillies seventy seven pitch here for Nola. Remember he had that rough first inning over 30 pitches. But since then he has not given up a hit just one walk. And that was to Olsen in the third inning Olsen deep right center and that one gets out of here into the front row a solo shot and 15 to four down here the six and Matt Olsen continues to hit the ball extremely well in his career at Citizens Bank Park. This didn't do very much and sat in the middle of the play that Matt Olsen crushes the three to pitch to Acuna swing and a miss he got him and Aaron Nola moves into third place all time in Philly's history and strikeouts with that curveball right there. One thousand eight hundred forty five career strikeouts he slides right past Cole Hamels. They're going to authenticate it. Everybody at Citizens Bank Park is on their feet as Kyle Schwerber comes to the plate. He has gone deep three times tonight it's the fourth time in his career he's had a three home run game he's never hit four in one game. Places on their feet and open for number four. That one's drill deep to right field runs and again it's his fourth home run of the night as Kyle Schwerber becomes the first Philly since Michael Jack Schmidt to hit four homers in a game. It's a three run home run that gives him nine runs batted in tonight the twenty first player in modern major league history to hit four homers in a game. It's a historic moment for Schwerber in the Philly. That was cool. Scott is out number one Sosa coming up Lowe lines wanted to left field a base at Kepler will score the Phillies at another when it's nineteen to four. And here comes Kyle Schwerber. Can he do something that has never been done before the pitch to left Eli White now and White makes the call to catch Schwerber had taken off the batting helmet was holding it in his hand and just kind of a quick tip to the crowd far and away the biggest offensive night of the year for the Phillies. The one by ball left side should do it. Sosa. Sosa makes the call and makes the catch in the Phillies win it Kyle Schwerber is the story tonight. He's the story around baseball tonight. Phillies scored 19 runs it's the most since July 1st twenty twenty three.