The Phillies’ six-game road trip kicked off with a win on the wrong side of the Commonwealth on Friday night (JK, yinz are cool).
Kyle Schwarber came into the night with five hits in eight at-bats against Pirates’ starter, Mitch Keller, including three doubles. Schwarber led off the game with another double off Keller and followed that up in his second AB with his first home run off of the righthander to open the scoring for the evening.
Kyle Schwarber is slugging .849 (124 total bases in 146 ABs) on the first pitch of at-bats since the 2021 season, best in MLB.