Painter’s best night arrives at the right time
A 3-8 record undersells what Andrew Painter did to the Cardinals overnight. Seven innings, five hits, one run, eight strikeouts. The longest outing of his season and the best start of his career.
Philadelphia won 12-3 and made it eight straight. The margin was settled long before Painter left the mound, which is part of the story. He pitched with a lead from the first inning onward and used it to work deeper than he had managed all year.
Every Phillies starter finished with a hit. Edmundo Sosa doubled home two in the first. Alec Bohm collected two hits and scored twice inside a four-run third that put the game beyond Quinn Mathews.
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Schwarber and Harper keep the numbers climbing
Kyle Schwarber’s 38th home run leads the majors. Bryce Harper’s three-run shot in the sixth was his 26th. That is 64 between two hitters in the same lineup, and it explains why a Philadelphia scoring run rarely stays modest once it starts.
The sequencing mattered as much as the totals. Philadelphia scored in the first, added four in the third and buried the game in the sixth. Three separate innings, three separate hitters doing the damage, no reliance on one big frame.
Mathews wears the early damage
Quinn Mathews fell to 0-2 after five innings in which he allowed seven earned runs on ten hits, all of it packed into the first three. He settled afterwards, which will register somewhere in a St. Louis evaluation but does nothing for the line score.
Eight in a row is the sort of stretch that reshapes a September. Philadelphia are getting it from a rookie starter, the home run leader in baseball and a former MVP at the same time, and that combination is harder to plan against than any one of the three on its own.
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