Alec Bohm keeps riding his recent hitting surge in Phillies' 6-4 win over Marlins

Lochlahn March, The Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug 18, 2026

Published in Baseball

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PHILADELPHIA — Alec Bohm righted himself on second base and swiped his hand on the Phillies logo across his chest, staring back across the diamond at his dugout.

The Phillies first baseman has been riding a hot streak at the plate all month, and he continued it Tuesday against the Marlins by punching a slider to left-center field. The RBI double was part of a five-hit, four-run outburst in the sixth inning that put the Phillies up for the 6-4 win over the Marlins.

Kyle Schwarber came a few feet foul of a three-run homer that would have turned the inning into a total bloodbath. He even completed his home run trot before the initial call of fair was overturned by replay review. Schwarber later made up for it, though, with an RBI single in the eighth inning that scored a big insurance run.

Bohm drove in the Phillies’ first run of the game with a single in the first, and he wasn’t done after the double. He also completed an unassisted double play to help out José Alvarado in the seventh, reaching out to snag a line drive and beating Javier Sanoja back to first in one fell swoop.

The sixth-inning eruption was key for the Phillies to overcome two fielding errors and five walks issued by the pitching staff.

Through the first four innings, the only hit starter Zack Wheeler allowed was an 0-2 count homer from Griffin Conine. But he often fell behind and had seven three-ball counts, four of which resulted in walks.

Two of those walks came back to bite him in the fifth. Wheeler lost the zone against Brian Navaretto and Jakob Marsee, issuing free passes to both. Xavier Edwards laced a line drive into center field for a single that scored a run. But an outfield assist from Justin Crawford, who combined with Trea Turner and Luis Arraez to catch Edwards sliding into second, limited the damage there.

The deep counts drove up Wheeler’s pitch count, and he was lifted after 98 pitches and five innings. The Phillies right-hander has not completed six innings in his last five starts, although that includes a rain-shortened outing in Baltimore on Aug. 2.

However, Wheeler’s velocity was back to normal after losing a tick in his previous start in St. Louis. He struck out seven vs. Miami, including three on his fastball.

A leadoff walk and an error led to an unearned run scoring on Alex McFarlane. The hard-throwing righty relieved Wheeler for the sixth inning and after a first-pitch strike, threw four straight balls to Otto Lopez. After a single from Conine, Lopez scored when Arraez threw the ball away trying to turn a double play.

In the eighth, Orion Kerkering also threw the ball past Bohm at first after fielding a grounder back to the mound, which led to another unearned run for the Marlins.

The offense’s sixth-inning outburst started with Turner getting hit by a pitch. Arraez used his bat-to-ball skills to reach down for a slider well below the zone, flaring it into center for a single to put two on for Bohm.

After his RBI double, Bohm scored standing up on a single up the middle from Bryson Stott. Brandon Marsh and Crawford both joined the party with singles apiece, giving the Phillies a 5-3 lead in a game they trailed 3-1.

Turner also was hit with a fastball on the wrist in the seventh inning, but the umpires ruled that he had swung while trying to avoid the pitch and it was deemed a strikeout instead. Turner was checked out by trainers but remained in the game.

With Jhoan Duran unavailable after pitching back-to-back games, Brooks Raley delivered a 1-2-3 inning in the ninth to pick up his first save as a Phillie. He was helped out by two diving plays from Stott at third base.