Captain Jack's Phillies Postgame

Dodgers 4, Phillies 2. Series opener in LA. Zack Wheeler gives up four solo home runs in six innings, Freddie Freeman, Max Muncy, Will Smith, and Shohei Ohtani all going deep. Justin Wrobleski shuts the Phillies down, seven innings, one run, nine punchouts. Kyle Schwarber's solo shot and a Steward Berroa run-scoring single in the eighth are the only Phillies offense. Sweep at Petco on Wednesday, flat night in LA on Friday. Phillies fall to 29 and 28.

Phillies 3, Padres 0. Sweep clinched. Cristopher Sánchez throws seven shutout innings, nine punchouts, no walks, on a hundred pitches — and breaks Grover Cleveland Alexander's 1911 franchise record for consecutive scoreless innings, pushing the streak to 44⅔. Walker Buehler has to come out injured in the sixth. Trea Turner caps it with a solo shot in the ninth. Three in a row over San Diego. Phillies pass the Nats into second in the East.

Phillies 4, Padres 3. Three solo shots — Bryce in the first, Realmuto in the second, Trea in the third. Nola goes six on eighty pitches. Brad Keller hangs a sweeper to Laureano in the eighth, Duran closes it. Two in a row, sweep tomorrow.