PHILADELPHIA — It had been more than a week since fans in Philadelphia had seen their team in person, plenty of time to savor the lasting image from that game: A dramatic eighth-inning, go-ahead home run by Bryce Harper. It was a defining two-run blast that all but clinched the National League pennant for the surprising Phillies.
It took nine days for them to come back home, but on the very next pitch Harper saw at Citizens Bank Park, in the first inning of Tuesday’s game, he rocketed a drive deep into the right field bleachers for another two-run home run.
It was a breathtaking way to welcome the World Series back to Philadelphia after a 12-year absence, and it did more than just set a thunderous tone. It lit the fuse for a barrage of home runs for the home team — five in all — as the Phillies hammered the Houston Astros, 7-0, in Game 3 of the World Series.
After Harper rounded the bases amid an ear-shattering roar from his jubilant supporters, he appeared to whisper instructions to his teammate, Alec Bohm. An inning later Bohm hit a homer that happened to be the 1,000th in World Series history.
The 1,001st homer came two outs after that, off the bat of Brandon Marsh, and Kyle Schwarber and Rhys Hoskins followed suit in consecutive at-bats in the fifth inning.
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
The Phillies on Tuesday became the fourth team ever — like, ever — to hit five homers in a World Series game, and all of them came off Houston’s Lance McCullers Jr. The balls traveled a combined 1,950 feet. That’s far.
Let’s review them all, shall we? →
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
The ball Bryce Harper mashed into the seats in right-center for his sixth homer of the postseason, should have had an obituary written about it. It lived a good life. R.I.P.
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
Alec Bohm’s liner might have scraped the top of Yordan Alvarez’s cap on its flight over the flower beds in left field, and at a speed — 109.2 miles per hour, according to Statcast — considered unattainable on my first car.
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
Brandon Marsh 9-ironed a ball into the first row of seats in right field, with it popping out of the glove of a 10-year-old boy, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, and requiring a replay review to confirm it was gone. It was.
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
The ivy-covered batter’s eye in center field at Citizens Bank Park is 35 feet high. Kyle Schwarber’s homer might have still been rising when the ball struck it, about three-quarters of the way up, an estimated 443 feet away.
Phillies Hit 1,950 Feet of Home Runs
Ben ShpigelReporting from Citizens Bank Park
Rhys Hoskins trailed Harper for the postseason lead in home runs for four innings. His sixth of the playoffs landed not far from where Bohm’s did.
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