SAN FRANCISCO — — Bryce Harper homered and doubled 3 times, Jesús Luzardo struck out seven and gave up three hits in seven innings, and the Philadelphia Phillies saved Justin Verlander winless with a 13-0 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday.
Verlander (0-7), the 42-year-old right-hander in his first yr with the Giants, gave up 4 runs (two earned) on seven hits in six innings. The three-time Cy Younger Award winner struck out seven and didn’t problem a stroll.
It was his fifteenth begin of the season and his longest earlier streak of begins and not using a win was seven.
The Phillies scored an unearned run within the second earlier than Harper opened the fourth together with his tenth homer, taking Verlander to left subject.
Harper led off the sixth with a double, igniting Philadelphia’s two-run inning. He doubled twice within the eighth inning when the Phillies broke open the sport with seven runs off San Francisco’s bullpen. The massive blow was a three-run homer by Kyle Schwarber off Scott Alexander, Schwarber’s twenty ninth homer of the season.
Mike Yastrzemski, usually an outfielder, pitched the ninth for the Giants. He gave up two runs however received Harper on a foul popup to finish the inning.
The Giants’ lone risk towards Luzardo (8-5) got here within the second after they had runners at first and second with one out earlier than the lefty struck out Jung Hoo Lee and Luis Matos.
The sport was Verlander’s sixth high quality begin (no less than six innings pitched, not more than three earned runs allowed) of 2025.
Philadelphia LHP Ranger Suárez (7-2, 1.99 ERA) will begin at San Diego on Friday night time. Additionally on Friday, the Giants and RHP Logan Webb (8-6, 2.62) host the Dodgers and RHP Dustin Might (5-5, 4.52).
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