Trea Turner sparks Phillies' eight-run ninth inning in 14-9 comeback win over Nationals

Lochlahn March, The Philadelphia Inquirer on Jun 23, 2026

Published in Baseball

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WASHINGTON — The Phillies were down to their very last strike.

After Jorbit Vivas’ homer in the bottom of the eighth — just his second of the year — had completely erased the Phillies’ three-run rally in the top of the inning, it felt like the Nationals had all the momentum.

Brad Lord started the ninth with back-to-back strikeouts to bring up Trea Turner as the Phillies’ last gasp. Turner, who was already 0 for 4 on the day, quickly fell behind in the count, 1-2.

But Turner managed to serve a single to left field that silenced the home crowd a little bit. And it sparked a eight-run rally that put the Phillies back on top, 14-9, for the win on Tuesday night.

Ten consecutive Phillies reached base in the ninth, all with two outs. They racked up five singles, two walks, a double from Edmundo Sosa, and homers from Brandon Marsh and Bryson Stott. Before the Nationals managed to end it, Turner came back up to the plate and delivered his second single of both the game and inning.

The Phillies mounted the comeback — in a game they had once trailed 5-0 — without major league home run leader Kyle Schwarber, who was scratched a few minutes before first pitch with low back tightness. But Sosa, who replaced Schwarber in the lineup at designated hitter, filled in well, recording five RBIs. He hit a two-run homer in the fifth inning and an RBI groundout in the seventh as the Phillies chipped away at Washington’s lead.

The Nationals built their early lead against starter Jesús Luzardo. In the second inning, the lefty allowed consecutive singles to put runners on the corners, and his defense conceded a run when Jacob Young hit into a double play. But things unraveled in the fourth inning when Washington capitalized on five singles and a walk to score four more runs.

For the most part, though, Luzardo got the contact he wanted. Andrés Chapparo started the rally with a grounder to shortstop that was ruled a single, though Turner’s throw was high and pulled Bryce Harper off the bag.

Then, Dylan Crews hit a grounder up the middle that Turner made a good diving play on, though Crews beat his throw by a step. After Luzardo walked the next batter to load the bases, Nasim Nuñez’s ground ball past a diving Alec Bohm scored two runs. The Nationals’ last single of the inning was a broken bat bloop to the outfield that cashed in two more.

Luzardo tied a career-high with 13 strikeouts over 6 2/3 innings.

With Schwarber out, Marsh moved up to the No. 2 spot in the order and he sparked the Phillies’ eighth inning rally. The Nationals brought in lefty Richard Lovelady to face him, but he delivered a double to the wall, advancing to third on a throwing error. Bohm worked a walk and was replaced by a pinch-running Garrett Stubbs, while Stott was hit by a pitch to load the bases for J.T. Realmuto.

The catcher delivered a bases-clearing double that popped out of James Wood’s glove in right field that gave the Phillies a 6-5 lead.

But the momentum was short-lived when Orion Kerkering came out for the bottom of the eighth and struggled with command. He issued a five-pitch walk, hit a batter and then hung a sweeper to Vivas who capitalized with a three-run homer.