![]() ![]() "It was a cool moment, but I'm happy that we got the win overall." "A lot of people just looked at me weird," Schwarber said about the reaction he got in the dugout. "I've never seen a ball go up in that section in Petco Park. "I thought it got pretty small pretty fast," said Harper, who's in his first NLCS. Schwarber, who led the NL with 46 home runs this season but was in a 1-for-20 postseason slump coming in, raised his right arm as he rounded first base and Harper stood in the dugout with his mouth agape in amazement. It was the farthest in his career and the farthest at Petco in the Statcast Era and gave the Phillies a 2-0 lead. Schwarber's incredible shot on Darvish's first pitch of the sixth had an exit velocity of 119.7 mph - the hardest-hit ball in any postseason since Statcast began tracking in 2015 - and was the first to reach the right field upper deck at Petco Park, which opened in 2004. Harper, the two-time NL MVP who won the award last year, has hit nine home runs in 26 career postseason games. It was the fourth home run this postseason for Harper, who was playing in San Diego for the first time since his left thumb was broken when he was hit by a pitch by Blake Snell on June 25, sidelining him for two months. Harper, trying to reach his first World Series, hit a high-arcing, opposite-field shot into the first row in left field with one out in the fourth. "I mean, with the great pitching we had tonight, that's all we needed." "I thought Darvish was really good and we couldn't get much going, but Harper, three straight games with a home run, and Schwarber's game was just completely flush," Philadelphia manager Rob Thomson said. Nola is set to pitch against his brother, Padres catcher Austin Nola. ![]() The Phillies will try to take a 2-0 lead when they send Aaron Nola to mound to oppose Blake Snell on Wednesday. The Phillies managed just three hits off Yu Darvish and the San Diego bullpen - the combined four hits matched the fewest ever in a postseason game. Zack Wheeler was awesome, too, combining with two relievers on a one-hitter for Philadelphia. Harper hit his fourth homer this postseason and Schwarber hit a jaw-dropping, 488-foot drive that carried the Philadelphia Phillies over the San Diego Padres 2-0 Tuesday night to open the all-wild card NL Championship Series. SAN DIEGO (AP) Bryce Harper hit another postseason home run - no surprise there - and then Kyle Schwarber topped him by launching a shot that amazed even his teammates. ![]()
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