PHILADELPHIA – Kyle Schwarber, the man of the moment, walked to the plate with the bases loaded in the sixth. Schwarber was the seventh man to bat in a productive inning against the Angels bullpen. A run was already in on a Johan Rojas sacrifice fly, but the Phillies badly needed a bases-clearing hit from their MVP on offense.
Schwarber shook his head as he took a hanging slider in the middle of the zone for a called strike. The pitcher José Fermin thought he could sneak a fastball by him in the same location. Schwarber stayed on it, and belted it high in the air to right field.