DODGERS vs. PHILLIES: Official Full Game Highlights (July 20) | 2026 MLB Season

Christopher Sanchez started the All-Star game stumbled a little bit but these teams man are right where they want to be. LA up in the West by 11 and a hook and Philadelphia in the rearview mirror with the Braves just three games behind him. Christopher Sanchez making his first start since starting the All-Star game for the National League on Tuesday. The left-hander will be looking for win number 12 on the year. Sanchez has been nothing short of spectacular here at home 7 and 1 with a 0.86 ERA and 11 starts here at Citizens Bank Park the lowest home ERA in all of baseball. The last day before the All-Star break Shohei Ohtani had his left knee drained but there is confidence within the Dodgers organization that yes Shohei Ohtani will be back pitching and relatively soon. Now 0-2 and working ahead and he gets him to chase with a slider there which you don't see very often but a couple of sinkers and a slider Ohtani is down. One of the best pitches in baseball is that left on left sinker in and you saw Ohtani looking in again and a nice slider there from Sanchez. Here is Andy Paz what a breakout year defensively last year and now the whole package. Swing and a miss and not even close to a pitch in the zone man that's a slider and they are aggressive that's two strikeouts. You know when you have the side view mirror and it says objects appear closer than what they are Well this is exactly what Christopher Sanchez is doing pitching as an illusion. And that one got Tommy Edmond. And so Edmond will be a two out base runner here hit by pitch. Sanchez his last six starts a 5-5-6 ERA. Now Freddy Freeman stepping in Dave Roberts bumping him down to the cleanup spot and said he wanted to get a little bit separation between Ohtani and Freeman. Two quick outs. Now Freeman the other way in a left field on a hard line he is at first base and just like that after two strikeouts and a hit batter Freeman delivers to set the table for Mookie Betts. Billy's defense especially in the infield hasn't been great. Boehm and Turner on the left side fielded. Turner bobbles fires. His 15th of the year and the crowd is letting him have it. This inning should be over. Just going to his glove side I mean that is a Taylor made hop there just out in front of him see it hit him in the heel of the glove. This play has to be made and Trey Turner there with a tough air here and now we got bases loaded two outs and Miggy Rojas at the dish. And a chopper to Turner he's going to charge and just step on the bag. There's not a man on the planet who feels better about the way that just transpired than that guy Trey Turner. So now it's Emmett Sheehan's turn to take the hill in his second half debut in the first half a four and six record. Well Trey Turner will be the first to face him batting 241 on the year. And Turner was all over it and that's redemption. He goes to the gap he jumped all over it to the tune of 110 miles an hour. Top location. It's dead red center. It's exactly what Trey Turner can and he gets in scoring position immediately on one swing. Kyle Schwarber way inside. Boy that one got him. Schwarber's going to go. Turner's going to go back to second. Not a comfortable looking pitch from Sheehan either. Boehm is their best hitter with runners in scoring position an eight eighty one OPS. Towards the hole what a play over there. Turns it to Rojas. And they get out of it with a. We will head to the top of the second inning. Teoscar Hernandez leading off. This is Teoscar goes down the line heading over there Rincones and in the corner is able to make the catch up against the wall. Nice play Gabriel Rincones. So here's Alex Call getting a rare start. Call chases Sanchez gets another swing and miss. He picks up his third strikeout. That back foot slider is just devastating. The depth here is just unbelievable. Sanchez setting this up with the fastball in and that slider just disappeared. Look at the break on this. Starts off the plate away and just behind the back foot there. There's another swing and a miss. Another strikeout for Christopher Sanchez's fourth of the night and he finishes off the Dodgers here in the top of the second. Bottom of the second inning Brandon Marsh to lead it off for the Phils. Mattis Marsh chases one down. Sheehan will get his first strikeout of the night. And the first out here in the second it'll bring Bryson Stott to the plate. That's going to get down for Stott the second baseman. One on one out. It'll bring J.T. Realmuto to the plate. Leads its way into center field. Back to back singles from Stott and Realmuto and in business for the lefty Gabriel Rincones. Three straight singles and this one from Rincones has the throw coming in cut off by Freeman. It's one nothing Philadelphia. The very first pitch he saw from him at Sheehan. So three consecutive hits at the bottom of the order. Gabriel Rincones Jr. Well that'll put two runners in scoring position now here for Justin Crawford. Still just one out in the inning. This one is to right field. Back goes call at the track. Stotts makes the play. Real will tag. The throw comes in. Able to scoop it but it is a two nothing game. The bottom delivers for the Phillies. Rincones and Crawford with RBI's. Runner over there at third so the Phils could add another. Turner sold one pitch in his first at bat. Oh is your run. One shot for Trey Turner. His 13th home run of the year and he doubles the Phillies lead. It's now four to nothing. Andy Pajes he struck out his first time. That's rifled into right field and the dive and oh what a bonus. Takes one away from Andy Pajes. Great defensive play and right. Eddie I love how he gets down. Gets his eyes down on this line drive. Just tracking that ball with his eyes. Low to the ground. Stays nice and level. It makes that catch look a lot easier than it was. Yeah two outs and now you have to deal with Freddie Freeman who singled hard the other way his first time up. Yeah he went there in a really impressive inning for Sanchez who had retired six in a row. And it's another strikeout for Christopher Sanchez his fifth of the night. And he gets through the third inning. And all of a sudden. Back to back hits to start the fourth inning. Swing it strikes and go ahead and think hey wait a minute maybe go the opposite way. So something is going and the Dodgers hopefully they'll just continue to do it. Keeping Rojas at first year one pitch away from getting two outs in this inning. If you can get something on the edge they're going to swing at it as we've seen tonight. 3-1 beating on the ground Turner will go to second for one start to first double play. Betts will score that's their first they get two. But the Phillies will take the double play now four to one. Call struck out in his first at-bat back in the second inning. On the ground Turner no underneath his glove range to his left. Is that a play he should have been able to make? Yes and the one thing is but he's going to his left and you have to look at where the glove was pertaining to the grounder. You want that ball to be down and work up. This glove is up and he tried to work down. You have to work from bottom up in order to make that. It's too high right there. Base hit is a scoring decision here in Philadelphia now rushing. Oh Rio Nuketo is going to challenge that. He's called the ball he thinks this is a strike and it gets the top of the zone. Sanchez will get out of it. There was a double play in there six four three. Call single he gets stranded they get one. Well leading it off here in the fifth will be Shohei Ohtani 0-2 tonight. On the 1-2 74th pitch called strike three and no challenge from Ohtani. It's been 13 pitches that Christopher Sanchez has shown Shohei Ohtani. Not one has been on the middle to upper part of the zone. Everything has been down and that one hitting the corner last is with a perfect sight right there and a perfect call. Seven strikeouts. Turner with a double and a homer. He's been red hot with three homers in the game since the break. The rest of the team that means the Schwarbers and the Harpers with two. Crawford goes swinging a miss the throw down is not in time. Great speed he steals his 13th back. Turner retiring on a strikeout fourth of the game for Sheehan. But Emmett Sheehan is really settling in nicely the last couple innings. Six outs and 18 combined pitches. 2-2 Schwarber gone chasing there and maybe Sheehan's best played appearance there with all the pitches the curveball and the change up to get Schwarber to chase. Terrific work. Justin Crawford on third base only one out and Sheehan strands the runner to keep it 4-1 Phillies at the end of five. And Sanchez has been very good with just one run allowed but he's now going to throw his 90th pitch it comes to Mookie Betts. He lights one over the head of Turner. Now Teoscar Hernandez the batter. That's least up the middle off the bat of Teoscar Hernandez. And now to second base goes Rojas. I'm staying with my ground ball guy here. I really thought of the lineup. And here comes Don Mattingly. I think it has to do with the pitch count the 99. They probably figured out this is where they want it and the last three balls have been hit pretty hard. Christopher Sanchez this night is done. He gets a nice round of applause from the crowd. Seven strikeouts. She leaves with just shy of a hundred pitches. Ryan Kirkering is coming in. He decide to bring the righty into face and it's going to be Max Muncy. Swung on that one is going to stay fair. It lands and around and it is Rojas to third base. Teoscar Max Muncy delivers a run and a double. In a pinch hit roll it's 4-2. We won't see the Kirkering versus Otani. Another intentional walk by the Phillies. And just an opportunity for Andy Pajes who has arrived this year offensively. Back up the middle. Turner will short hop it off his glove. Goodness. Hurt the Phillies again. Trey Turner second error tonight. 16 on the season. Another run comes in. He tried to attack that. That's a tough one right there. You have it Brandon Marsh at the plate. We've got to do a little damage against Sheehan. He's given up that four run spot in the fourth inning but since then one infield hit. Marsh hits this one hard. Left center field. Everyone going back. Look at. Dodger scored two in the top half of the sixth grade in March. Gets one all season. An all star for the Philadelphia Phillies this year. Huge home run for Marsh his 16th of the year. Stott golfs one towards the gap. Pajes is running after it and he will have it. An effort by Pajes. He had it for a second. It popped out of his glove. That one a hundred miles an hour off the bat of Stott who's into second. Another one high. Not what Vessia or Roberts wanted. A walk to hill first and second. They have Turner up with a double and a homer. He laces one down the line. It just gets out. What a night for the shortstop for the Phillies. The good and the bad. But tonight the wreck. Dodgers three. There's Mookie Betts. Mookie with hits in each of his last two plate appearances. Mookie gets into one to left field. Did he just leave the billing? Yes a Betts blast. A hundred mile an hour and now 100 again. Travel 401 for Mr. Betts. A three hit night including a solo home run leading off the seventh inning. And now it's eight to four. Bryce Harper. The Dodgers trail the Phillies eight to four. They're out hitting the Phillies but they are not out slugging the Phillies. Harper sends one deep to left field. This one is going in. Scott gives up a Bryce bomb to left. Harper's 21st of the year. They add to the lead. That is his 200th home run with the Philadelphia Phillies. Count is one ball and one strike to Derek Hill. The pitch is driven from Derek Hill. Absolutely annihilated the Phillies fifth home run of the night and they have ten. He adds on here as the Phillies lead stretches ten to four. That was a rocket right at Turner but the nightmare in the field continues for Trey Turner. Now you almost feel like for him he can't he can't believe it. Also by the way hit two homers tonight in a double. They got a chance for two here. Scott will get it to him. He will go to first not in time and Pajes will score. He had stolen second got to third. Now Mookie Betts is a three hit night. Homer his last time up. Mookie Betts bid for his second. It is gonna happen. Betts with his second of the night. Now the homer barrage continues here at the bank and the shortstops have combined for four homers tonight in this game. So Durand-Durand checks into this game and he'll be looking for a save here tonight as it is indeed a safe situation at this point. On the ground Turner. So the Phillies hold on and they win it tonight. It is their 1,000th win here in the regular season at Citizens Bank Park and what a game it was.