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The Phillies continued setting home run records in their 10-0 win over Arizona in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park. Trea Turner went deep in the first inning before Kyle Schwarber homered in the third and sixth innings -- all of the solo variety.
In fact, each of Philadelphia's past 13 homers has come without anyone on base, marking the longest stretch of solo homers in postseason history. Overall, the Phillies have smashed 16 home runs in their past five games, the most by any team in postseason history in a five-game span.
After tying the single-game postseason record with six homers in Game 3 of the NL Division Series against the Braves, the Phils hit three more in their series-clinching victory in Game 4 -- then did the same in Games 1 and 2 of the NLCS.
On an individual level, Schwarber's two-homer game against the D-backs was Philadelphia's fourth multihomer game this postseason. Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos each recorded one in Game 3 of the NLDS, while Castellanos made some history of his own by doing it again in Game 4.
The 2023 Phillies' four individual multihomer games are also tied for an MLB postseason record, matching the '09 Phillies (Chase Utley and Jayson Werth, twice each) and '02 Angels (Troy Glaus twice, Tim Salmon and Adam Kennedy).
As a team, Philadelphia has a .575 slugging percentage through eight games this postseason. To put that in perspective, only five players slugged that well during the regular season: Shohei Ohtani, Corey Seager, Matt Olson, Ronald Acua Jr. and Mookie Betts.
Orioles No. 5 prospect Samuel Basallo is on a home run heater at High-A. The 19-year-old slugger has crushed five home runs in as many games, but his latest trot around the bases meant a little more than the others. The highly touted prospect -- who has seen time behind
"After the game, I was pumped, just being 1-0. That's all I care about. Good opportunity to hit a home run, that was great, but at the end of the day, if I hit a homer and we don't win, there's nothing else," Harper said, much more subdued postgame than during his home run celebration, when he blew on his fingers at home plate after he gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead off Zac Gallen just five pitches into the bottom of the first.
The scary thing for the Diamondbacks: Harper might not even be the Phillies' hottest hitter. Nick Castellanos gave them a 3-0 lead with a second-inning home run off Gallen, following the first-inning blasts from Kyle Schwarber and Harper. It was Castellanos' fifth home run over three postseason games -- tying Reggie Jackson's mark from the 1977 World Series, when he homered once in Game 4, once in Game 5 and three times in the Game 6 clincher for the New York Yankees.
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Second baseman Neil Walker twice could not turn grounders by speedy Niko Goodrum into outs. After the second one, Ronny Rodriguez hit a two-run homer. A lunging Luke Voit could not handle a Nicholas Castellanos grounder that went for an infield single. Victor Martinez followed with a two-run homer. Add in an error by shortstop Gleyber Torres and a botched rundown by Miguel Andujar and, well, there was not going to be any Tinker to Evers to Chance poetry written about this infield.
Gonzalez upped his major league-leading run batted in total to 143. He hit two-run doubles in each of the first two innings as the Rangers opened a 6-0 lead. He added his 39th homer, a two-run blast into the left-field upper deck to make it 8-0 in the fourth and tripled home another run in the sixth.
Esteban Loaiza (3-3) gave up two runs and six hits in eight innings. Loaiza had given up five earned runs in each of his last three starts. Tony Clark and Luis Gonzalez hit consecutive homers in the eighth inning for Detroit.
Manny Ramirez hit his career-high 34th homer and drove in five runs, giving him 118 RBIs. Sexson, who hit a 409-foot homer to dead center in the second, had four RBIs for the third time since being recalled from the minors on Aug. 8 to replace injured first baseman Jim Thome. 5376163bf9