Nick Castellanos, Trea Turner and Kody Clemens homered, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 9-6 on Wednesday night and clinched a first-round bye in the playoffs.
drove in three runs for the Phillies, who claimed their first NL East title in 13 years on Monday night.
Coupled with Milwaukee’s 2-1 loss to Pittsburgh, Philadelphia secured the bye and home-field advantage in the NLDS. The Phillies owned the tiebreaker with the Brewers after winning the season series against the NL Central champions.Philadelphia closed out the home portion of its regular season with a 54-27 mark. A crowd of 42,438 was on hand for the 47th sellout of the season, running the home attendance to 3,308,638 on the year.
The Phillies finish with three games at Washington, beginning on Friday. Philadelphia can clinch home-field advantage through the NL Championship Series by ending the season tied with or ahead of theCastellanos added another solo shot in the third, but Hoerner responded with a three-run shot off Cristopher Sánchez in the fourth.in the fifth. All three runs were charged to Assad, who was charged with eight hits in 4 1/3 innings.
Sánchez was charged with four runs, three earned, and five hits in 4 2/3 innings. José Ruiz got four outs for the win. Kevin Alcántara, one of Chicago's top prospects, started in right field and singled in the ninth for his first major league hit. was not in the lineup, one night after being hit by a pitch in the second. ... OFstarted in left field for the second straight day after returning Monday from a stint on the injured list since Sept. 1 due to a kidney infection. He went 0 for 4 with a strikeout.
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