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sports Monday 26 august 2024
Kyle Schwarber and Garrett Stubbs power Phillies to an 11-3 win

over the Royals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —
Kyle Schwarber had two TRAINER’S ROOM
hits and three RBIs and Royals OF Hunter Renfroe
Garrett Stubbs had a ca- placed on 10-day injured
reer-best four hits to lead list with a right hamstring
the Philadelphia Phillies to strain. OF Tyler Gentry re-
an 11-3 win over the Kan- called from Triple-A Oma-
sas City Royals on Sunday. ha.
After Garrett Stubbs
opened the third inning UP NEXT
with a triple into the right- Phillies: RHP Zack Wheeler
field corner, Schwarber hit (12-6, 2.73 ERA) gets the
a double to right-center. start for their home series
Alex Bohm’s two-out hit opener against Houston’s
scored Schwarber, giving Justin Verlander (3-3, 3.92)
the Phillies a 2-0 lead. on Monday.
Schwarber added RBIs on
a bases-loaded grounder Royals LHP Cole Ragans
in the fourth and a run- (10-8, 3.31) and RHP Alec
scoring single that capped Marsh (7-7, 4.41) will face
a three-run sixth inning. the Guardians in day/
The Phillies scored five runs night doubleheader. Host
in the eighth inning, high- Cleveland has not named Philadelphia Phillies’ Nick Castellanos hits a two-run home run during the eighth inning of a base-
lighted by Bohm’s two-run starters.q ball game against the Kansas City Royals, Aug. 25, 2024, in Kansas City, MO.
single and Nick Castel- (AP Photo/ Charlie Riedel)
lanos’ two-run homer, his
17th of the season.
Philadelphia’s Kolby Allard
(2-0), recalled from Triple-A
Lehigh Valley before Sun-
day’s game, worked five
innings, allowing two runs
on eight hits with five strike-
outs.
Kansas City’s Seth Lugo
(14-8) allowed six runs, five
earned, on 11 hits.
The Phillies went 7 for 14
with runners-in-scoring-po-
sition.
After matching a season-
high with 18 hits in Satur-
day’s 11-2 win, the Phil-
lies banged out 16 hits on
Sunday and 45 hits while
outscoring the Royals 26-12
to take two games of the
three-game series.
The Royals hit three solo
homers. Bobby Witt Jr. put
Kansas City on the score-
board with a 441-foot
homer to center in the
third, his 26th. Maikel Gar-
cia opened the fifth inning
with his seventh homer,
and MJ Melendez began
the sixth with his 16th.
Tyler Gentry made his ma-
jor league debut for the
Royals as a pinch-hitter in
the eighth inning.
Position player Garrett
Hampson pitched a hitless
ninth for Kansas City.

TRANSACTIONS
Phillies recalled Allard from
Triple-A Lehigh Valley and
optioned RHP Max Lazar to
Lehigh Valley.