Bryce Harper is first player to accomplish this in 2025 as Phillies remain hot

[ad_1] Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper delivered a classic efficiency on the plate on Monday evening towards the Seattle Mariners.

His two-homer sport carried the Phillies to a 12-7 win over Seattle, giving them back-to-back video games with 11 or extra runs.

Each of Harper's residence runs traveled at the least 440 ft, making him the primary participant this season with a number of homers of that distance in the identical sport.

His first homer got here within the sixth inning off an 83-mph sweeper from Mariners pitcher Casey Legumina to present Philadelphia a 7-0 lead.

Harper topped that with a 448-foot shot within the seventh, hitting an 86-mph changeup for his second homer of the sport to increase Philadelphia's result in 11-4.

In response to MLB.com's Sarah Langs, Harper is the primary Phillies participant with a number of residence runs of 440 ft or extra in a sport below Statcast (since 2015). It's the second time Harper has completed the feat, becoming a member of Yordan Alvarez, Willson Contreras, Joey Gallo and Jorge Soler as the one 5 gamers to take action.

It was an entire workforce effort for the Phillies, who recorded 21 hits, 12 runs and 4 residence runs sooner or later after plating 11 towards the Washington Nationals.

Beginning pitcher Ranger Suarez was equally spectacular with a career-high 10 strikeouts throughout 6.2 innings of two-run ball.

Whereas Harper solely had 4 residence runs up to now this month, Monday was a reminder of how deadly he can nonetheless be on the plate with three hits in six at-bats, two residence runs, three RBI and two runs.

He missed 22 video games earlier this season because of irritation in his proper wrist, however appears to be returning to type in the course of the stretch run.

The 11 runs towards the Nationals, who're in final place within the NL East standings, was not precisely eye-opening, however placing up 12 towards a Mariners workforce that's battling with the Houston Astros for first-place within the AL West is actually encouraging.

Philadelphia (72-53) presently holds a 5.5 sport lead on the New York Mets for the NL East lead. With three wins in its final 4 video games, the Phillies are taking good care of enterprise on either side of the plate and giving themselves a shot at one other division crown.