Three Homers Off Scherzer! Phillies Win 7-4, Take the Toronto Series on Schwarber's 423-Foot Bomb

Phillies 7, Blue Jays 4 at Rogers Centre, and Philadelphia takes the series two games to one in Toronto. They jump Max Scherzer for three home runs — Bryce Harper's solo shot in the first, Alec Bohm's three-run blast in the third, and a 423-foot Kyle Schwarber bomb off the reliever in the fourth — and chase the future Hall of Famer in the fourth on the same day he records his three thousand five hundredth career strikeout. Jesús Luzardo strikes out eight over five and two-thirds, Realmuto guns down a runner in a rundown, and José Alvarado collects his five hundredth career K. Chase Shugart walks in three runs in a shaky seventh to make it 7-4, but Jhoan Duran slams the door for the save, bouncing back from last night's walk-off, his third straight night pitching. Roof open all game. The Phillies are thirty-seven and thirty-one, back up a game and a half for the wild card, and the Braves have lost two straight, so the division gap is down to eight.