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Edmundo Sosa hit three of Philadelphia’s team-record eight home runs, Kyle Schwarber had two to pad his National League lead and the Phillies wrapped up a first-round bye with an 11-1 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.
The Phillies officially called a delay at 8:30 p.m. ET, but the rain had been threatening to pause the game. A rain delay had been called earlier but the umpires opted to keep the game going. Eventually, the weather won.
Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto are back in the lineup as the Phillies wrap up a 3-game series with the Miami Marlins at Citizens Bank Park Sept. 25. First pitch is at 6:05 p.m. and the game airs on NBC Sports Philly. Harper has missed the last two games with an illness.
In an 11-1 victory on Wednesday, Philadelphia (93-65) hit a franchise-record eight home runs -- including three by Edmundo Sosa and two by Kyle Schwarber. Bryson Stott, Alec Bohm and Otto Kemp also went deep for the Phillies, who clinched a first-round playoff bye with the victory.
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Edmundo Sosa hit three of Philadelphia's team-record eight home runs, Kyle Schwarber had two to pad his National League lead and the Phillies wrapped up a first-round bye with an 11-1 victory over the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night.
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While he paces the National League in long balls with 56 and sits two homers back of Ryan Howard's club-record 58 with four games to go, Schwarber set a major-league record in Wednesday's rout with his third-inning shot off Ryan Weathers.