The Phillies opened the series with a 10-7 win over the Dodgers at Citizens Bank Park, and Trea Turner was right in the middle of everything. He powered Philadelphia with a pair of home runs, while also giving Los Angeles a few extra chances it couldn’t afford to waste.
Turner finished 3-for-4 with a double, two homers, two runs scored and five RBI. His first blast came in the second inning, a two-run shot off Emmet Sheehan that pushed the Phillies ahead 4-0.
Later, after the Dodgers had started to chip away, Turner struck again with a three-run homer against Alex Vesia to stretch the lead to 8-3. It was his first multi-homer game of the season.
The offensive outburst came with a strange twist, though, because Turner also had a rough day in the field. He was officially charged with one error, but should have had four. It was the kind of game that can swing from brilliant to messy in a hurry, and Turner managed to live on both sides of that line.
Philadelphia’s power display was not limited to Turner. The Phillies hit five home runs in all, including two against Sheehan and one against Vesia. Brandon Marsh led off the sixth with a homer, Bryce Harper added another late, and the long ball kept piling up as the Dodgers tried to hang around.
Sheehan lasted into the sixth, but the line wasn’t pretty: six runs on eight hits, with six strikeouts, one walk and a hit batter. His season ERA moved to 5.13.
Philadelphia jumped on him early with three straight hits in the second inning, then a sacrifice fly made it 2-0 before Turner’s first homer blew the inning open. Sheehan did settle in for a stretch, but the Phillies got to him again in the sixth when Marsh went deep and Bryson Stott followed with a double.
Vesia entered, walked Derek Hill and then served up Turner’s second homer. One of those runs was charged to Sheehan, while the other two went to Vesia.
Landon Knack handled the final two innings for Los Angeles, and the Phillies added more damage there too. Harper homered off him, and Derek Hill also scored in the late going.
For the Dodgers, Mookie Betts was the bright spot. After a rough July, he broke out with four hits and two home runs, giving Los Angeles a much-needed jolt at the plate.
It was his first four-hit game of the season. Even so, the Dodgers couldn’t turn his production into enough runs.
They finished with just four, went 2-for-7 with runners in scoring position, left nine on base and hit into a double play.
Their first run came on a double play after Betts and Miguel Rojas opened the fourth with back-to-back singles. In the sixth, Betts and Teoscar Hernández started another rally with singles, Max Muncy came off the bench and doubled in a run, and Shohei Ohtani was intentionally walked to load the bases with two outs. Andy Pages then rolled a weak grounder to short, and Turner couldn’t handle it cleanly, allowing another run to score.
Betts later homered in the seventh for Los Angeles’ fourth run. The fifth came after another Turner miscue let Tommy Edman reach on a single and put runners at the corners. Eliezer Alfonzo followed with a fielder’s choice to bring in the run, and Betts capped his big night with his second homer to trim the margin to three.
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