ATLANTA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber didn’t sound too impressed with his latest long home run. The Phillies’ slugger was just glad to beat a tough division rival.
“I would’ve took it if it had gone in the first row,” he said. “It was a good offensive day all around for all of us.”
Schwarber hit a 483-foot, two-run homer, and the Phillies went deep four other times to back Zack Wheeler in a 7-1 win over the Atlanta Braves on Monday night.
Schwarber’s 45th homer of the season gave the Phillies a six-run lead in the sixth, a drive that cleared the top of the Chop House restaurant in right field at Truist Park. It was the second-farthest ball hit at the home of the Braves and the second-longest homer by Schwarber in his career, 5 feet shy of the ball he hit off Yu Darvish in the NL Championship Series at San Diego last year.
“I think it’ll be cool whenever you’re done,” Schwarber said. “Heck, for me, it’s cool to say you did it and you can take your kid to a baseball game and go, ‘Hey, you know what? Dad did this,’ but I’m just worried about trying to get a win right now.”