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Major League Baseball
Philadelphia 16, Miami 2
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, September 6, 2024
Where: loanDepot Park, Miami, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Larry Vanover, 1B - Chris Segal, 2B - Nate Tomlinson, 3B - David Rackley
Attendance: 15963

Zack Wheeler pitched six strong innings and Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber each homered and drove in three runs as the Philadelphia Phillies routed the host Miami Marlins 16-2 on Friday.

Wheeler (14-6) allowed just one run on two hits and one walk. He struck out seven and lowered his ERA to 2.59.

Turner went 3-for-5 with three runs, a walk and his 16th homer of the season. Schwarber went 2-for-5 with three runs, a walk and his 33rd homer of the year.

Philadelphia (85-56) won its sixth game in a row and maintained an eight-game lead in the National League East over both the New York Mets and the Atlanta Braves.

The Phillies set season highs in hits (22), extra-base hits (10) and runs. However, they lost catcher J.T. Realmuto to a left knee contusion. He fouled a pitch off his knee in the second exit, then exited for a pinch hitter in the fourth.

Miami starting pitcher Edward Cabrera was scratched due to migraine symptoms.

In his place, right-hander Austin Kitchen, 27, made his first major league start after three relief appearances. Kitchen (0-1) gave up seven runs, six earned, on nine hits in two innings. He struck out one.

Miami (52-89) used six pitchers, including outfielder David Hensley, who allowed two runs in two innings.

Kitchen needed 30 pitches to make it through a rough first inning. The Phillies bunched together four singles and benefitted from a throwing error by first baseman Jake Burger. Bryce Harper, Bryson Stott and Realmuto had RBI singles.

The Phillies made it 7-0 in the second as Schwarber stroked an RBI single, Turner followed with a two-run homer and Realmuto later added a run-scoring single.

Miami got on the board in the fourth as Connor Norby singled, advanced on a Burger walk and scored on Otto Lopez's double.

However, the Phillies kept coming, increasing their lead to 10-1 in the fifth as Johan Rojas and Turner stroked RBI doubles and Harper added a run-scoring single.

In the sixth, the Phillies scored four more times as Kody Clemens and Rojas hit RBI doubles before Schwarber slugged a two-run homer.

Philadelphia concluded its barrage of runs in the ninth as Stott and Garrett Stubbs lofted sacrifice flies.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Philadelphia   Miami
Zack Wheeler Player Austin Kitchen
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 2.0
7 Strikeouts 1
2 Hits 9
1.50 ERA 27.00
Hitting
Philadelphia   Miami
Trea Turner Player Otto Lopez
3 Hits 3
3 RBI 1
1 HR 0
7 TB 4
.600 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Philadelphia 22 2 36 .458 22 9 16 2 0 0
Miami 5 0 6 .156 14 13 2 3 0 2