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PITTSBURGH (AP) \u2014 Kyle Schwarber can\u2019t really explain why he\u2019s on a tear right now. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s a great question,\u201d Schwarber said. <\/p>\n

One the Philadelphia Phillies slugger isn\u2019t particularly interested in answering. All he knows is that he\u2019s found a little something. Even more importantly, so has his team.<\/p>\n

So even on a night the Phillies designated hitter smashed a pair of two-run homers that boosted his season total to a major league-leading 20 and drew a bases-loaded walk during a ninth inning rally, Schwarber was quick to deflect attention to all that was happening around him during an 11-9, 10-inning victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Schwarber reached 20 homers on the earliest date in MLB history, according to Stats Perform, bettering Arizona\u2019s Luis Gonzalez, who hit his 20th on May 17, 2001. The Phillies slugger also tied a club mark with 20 homers in the team\u2019s first 45 games, first set by Cy Williams in 1923.<\/p>\n

Bryce Harper, batting behind him, had four hits, including a tying single after Pirates closer Gregory Soto walked Schwarber on four pitches to pull the Phillies within two. Backup catcher Rafael Marchan delivered a two-run single in the 10th. Orion Kerkering picked up his first save of the season and just the third of his career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so much good that went on today that we were able to respond and fight back,\u201d Schwarber said. \u201cThat\u2019s a really positive thing for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The win pushed Philadelphia\u2019s record to 13-4 since Don Mattingly replaced Rob Thomson as manager and pulled the Phillies to within a game of .500 (22-23). The fact that surge has come in lockstep with Schwarber going off is not a coincidence.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s pretty amazing,\u201d Mattingly said. \u201cHe\u2019s a different cat from the standpoint of how he does it. \u2026 He\u2019s dangerous all the time. Doesn\u2019t matter really lefties or righties, either one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schwarber went deep off both to fuel Philadelphia\u2019s rally from a six-run deficit. He took Pittsburgh right-handed starter Braxton Ashcraft over the fence in the fifth. The Pirates pulled Ashcraft in favor of left-hander Mason Montgomery with one on and two outs in the seventh. It didn\u2019t matter. Schwarber turned on a 96 mph fastball that caught too much of the plate and sent it into the seats in right-center field to draw the Phillies within three.<\/p>\n

The two blasts gave Schwarber nine home runs in his last eight games. It\u2019s the second time in his career he\u2019s had that many homers in an eight-game span. Former slugger Albert Belle is the only other player in major league history to have that kind of prolific run twice.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOne of the cooler things I\u2019ve seen in baseball,\u201d Harper said. \u201cJust the ways he puts the bat on the ball. Yeah, it been pretty fun to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Schwarber, the fun part isn\u2019t watching the ball sail from the barrel of his bat to the farther reaches of the ballpark but what the scoreboard reads at the end of the night. <\/p>\n

A 10-game slide in April cost the popular Thomson his job. Mattingly \u2014 who\u2019ll miss Saturday\u2019s game to attend his son\u2019s graduation at Purdue \u2014 has steadied things. It\u2019s helped that one of baseball\u2019s best (and most expensive) lineups is starting to produce.<\/p>\n

Yet even as hot as Schwarber is at the moment, he\u2019s not getting ahead of himself. His most impressive at-bat Friday might have been the one where the bat never left his shoulder. <\/p>\n

With the Phillies down three in the ninth, Schwarber let four consecutive sinkers from Soto go by rather than take a hack and try to make something happen. He trotted to first base and Harper followed with a long single off the top of the wall in right-center to pull Philadelphia even.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreg\u2019s got great stuff and he\u2019s got a really nasty sinker in the bigger slider, so it\u2019s just kind of really keying in on what you want,\u201d Schwarber said. \u201cAnd once I get 3-0, I was happy with the take.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was even happier with what came next as the Phillies took another step toward looking like the team that has been a postseason fixture the last four years. While front-running Atlanta remains well ahead in the NL East, Philadelphia\u2019s early season funk has passed and momentum seems to be building, which Schwarber is far more concerned about than whatever home-run total is next to his name.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously we know it\u2019s not anywhere near complete, right?\u201d Schwarber said, later adding, \u201cIt\u2019s been really cool to see the guys go out there and getting their results and us as a team, to be able to kind of get the results that we want.\u201d<\/p>\n

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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/MLB<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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