Garrett Stubbs went 4-for-4 with three runs and an RBI to help the visiting Philadelphia Phillies pound the Kansas City Royals 11-3 in the rubber match of their three-game series on Sunday afternoon.
Kyle Schwarber and Alec Bohm each had two hits and three RBIs, Brandon Marsh had two hits and scored twice and Nick Castellanos hit a two-run homer for the Phillies, who went 3-3 on a six-game road trip.
Phillies left-hander Kolby Allard (2-0) was called up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley and allowed two runs and eight hits in five innings. He struck out five and didn't walk a batter.
Bobby Witt Jr., Maikel Garcia and MJ Melendez homered for the Royals, who went 0-for-11 with runners in scoring position. Kansas City dropped three games back of the first-place Cleveland Guardians in the American League Central after pulling within a game on Friday night.
Kansas City opens a four-game series at Cleveland on Monday.
Royals starter Seth Lugo (14-8) allowed six runs (five earned) and a season-high 11 hits in 5 1/3 innings. He struck out three and walked one.
Lugo came into the game with the third-best ERA in the AL (3.02) and the most innings pitched (166 2/3).
Stubbs tripled into the right field corner to lead off the third and scored on a double by Schwarber for a 1-0 lead. Bohm came through with a two-out RBI single later in the inning to extend the lead to 2-0.
Witt blasted a 441-foot homer to straightaway center, his 26th long ball of the season, with one out in the third to make it 2-1.
Schwarber's run-scoring groundout in the fourth extended the Philadelphia lead to 3-1, but Garcia drilled his seventh homer of the year on the first pitch of the bottom of the fifth to trim it to 3-2.
Stubbs delivered a one-out RBI double in the sixth to extend the lead to 4-2 and end Lugo's day.
Schwarber grounded the first pitch from Kris Bubic into right field for a single, scoring Johan Rojas, and Stubbs followed Rojas home when Dairon Blanco booted the ball, stretching the lead to 6-2.
Melendez hit his 16th homer of 2024 leading off the home half of the sixth to cut it to 6-3.
For the second straight day, the Phillies blew the game open with five runs in the eighth.
Bryce Harper drove in Stubbs with a double to make it 7-3. Bohm's two-run single made it 9-3, and Castellanos followed with a two-run homer -- his 17th home run of the season -- for an 11-3 lead.
--Field Level Media
Philadelphia | Kansas City | |
Kolby Allard | Player | Seth Lugo |
Win | W/L | Loss |
5.0 | IP | 5.1 |
5 | Strikeouts | 3 |
8 | Hits | 11 |
3.60 | ERA | 8.44 |
Philadelphia | Kansas City | |
Garrett Stubbs | Player | MJ Melendez |
4 | Hits | 2 |
1 | RBI | 1 |
0 | HR | 1 |
7 | TB | 6 |
1.000 | Avg | .667 |
Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
Philadelphia | 16 | 1 | 24 | .400 | 19 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Kansas City | 10 | 3 | 22 | .270 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 |