By the end of the second inning, every batter in red pinstripes already had a hit. By the end of the night, the scoreboard glowed with 12 runs, the box score bulged with 21 hits, and the Mariners were left sorting through the wreckage of a 12–7 Philadelphia victory.
This was the kind of offensive eruption the Phillies badly needed. With ace Zack Wheeler sidelined indefinitely and Aaron Nola struggling to regain form, the offense carried the weight — led by Trea Turner and Bryce Harper, who turned South Philadelphia into their personal launch pad.
It took 59 home games, but Turner finally gave the home crowd a home run. In the second inning, he turned on a full-count slider from Logan Gilbert and yanked it into the left-field seats. It wasn’t just his first homer at Citizens Bank Park this season. It also happened to be his 1,500th career hit.
Turner wasn’t done. He went 4-for-6, drove in five, doubled, and added two more RBI singles to cap off his best night of the year. He’s now riding an eight-game hitting streak with 14 hits in his last five contests.
While Turner ended one drought, Harper added to his legend. He launched a solo shot to the second deck in the sixth inning, then crushed a three-run homer into nearly the same spot an inning later. That gave him his 30th career multi-homer game and his 11th season with at least 20 long balls.
Realmuto joined the party too, connecting for a homer of his own in the second and finishing with three hits. Bryson Stott doubled in a run, while Brandon Marsh, Nick Castellanos, and Max Kepler each chipped in RBI knocks.
Ranger Suárez gave the Phillies exactly what they needed on the mound — length and strikeouts. He matched a career high with 10 strikeouts across 6 2/3 innings, allowing just four hits and two runs to improve to 9–6.
Things wobbled in the seventh, when Suárez gave up a Mitch Garver homer and plunked Dominic Canzone before handing the ball to Jordan Romano. Romano gave up a single and a three-run blast to Cole Young that cut the lead to three.
But Harper and Turner erased any drama in the bottom half, tacking on four more runs to restore the cushion.
For Seattle, Garver and Young provided nearly all of the offense. Garver homered and added an RBI single, while Young drove in four, including his three-run homer off Romano. Gilbert never gave his team a chance, lasting just two innings, surrendering nine hits and six runs while throwing 65 pitches.
The Mariners have now dropped five of their last six. Cal Raleigh, sitting one home run shy of tying the MLB record for homers in a season by a catcher, went 0-for-5 with three strikeouts.
After a grueling 10-game road trip and the gut-punch news on Wheeler, this was the opener the Phillies had to have: Turner breaking through, Harper mashing baseballs into orbit, Realmuto anchoring the lineup, and Suárez striking out 10.
On a night when South Philly needed a lift, the Phillies delivered one with thunder.
