Sometimes he eats you: Cubs 8, Phillies 4

Wherefore art thou, June Schwarbs?

The Philadelphia Phillies (38-29) couldn’t keep the bats of the Chicago Cubs (41-26) in check as they dropped the middle game of their series by a score of 8-4 on Tuesday night.

Mick Abel actually out-duelled his counterpart, Colin Rea, aside from three pitches to Dansby Swanson, Ian Happ and Michael Busch that landed over the fence.

Max Kepler gave the Phillies a 2-1 lead in the second inning with his seventh home run of the year, a two-run shot following a JT Realmuto single.

After the Happ and Busch homers, the Phils regained the lead in the bottom of the fifth with a double by Brandon Marsh, a single and a steal by Trea Turner and a two-RBI single by Alec Bohm.

Tanner Banks pitched a scoreless top of the fifth and gave way to Taijuan Walker, who surrendered the lead via a two-run home run to Happ, his second long ball of the night to go along with two walks.

Joe Ross made it out of the seventh unscathed before unraveling in the eighth with four hits and a walk to plate three more runs.

After Bohm’s two-RBI single against Ryan Brasier in the bottom of the fifth, the Phillies went 2-16 with a walk (Turner) against the Cub’s bullpen.

Bohm had three hits on the night. Brandon Marsh was 2-2 before appearing to injure his wrist on a slide at second and was later pulled from the game. Kyle Schwarber went 0-5 with a hat trick.

The Phillies will go for the series win tomorrow afternoon as Jesus Luzardo looks to regain his early season form against right hander, Ben Brown.