Phillies keep rolling under new skipper

Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and Odúbel Herrera homered as interim manager Rob Thomson and the streaking Philadelphia Phillies won their season-high seventh straight game, beating the sagging Brewers in Milwaukee 8-3 on Thursday.

The NL Central-leading Brewers lost their seasonworst sixth in a row.

It was the second consecutive three-game sweep for the Phillies under Thomson. He took over last Friday after manager Joe Girardi was fired, and Philadelphia swept the Angels before heading to Milwaukee.

Didi Gregorius singled, tripled, doubled and drove in a run for Philadelphia.

Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Corbin Burnes (3-4) and Phillies starter Zach Eflin were both out of the game by the end of the fifth.

Harper homered for the second straight day, connecting off Brad Boxberger for his 15th of the season, a solo drive in the seventh for a 4-2 lead.

Schwarber hit his 15th, a two-run drive off Trevor Kelley in the eighth. Herrera, who homered in a 10-0 romp Wednesday night, added a two-run drive in the ninth.

Eflin allowed a run, four hits and four walks in four innings.

Burnes walked a careerhigh four and gave up three runs, one earned, and three hits in 4 1/3 innings. He struck out eight and left after throwing 113 pitches. BRAVES 3, PIRATES 1 » Max Fried won his sixth straight decision by pitching six sharp innings and host Atlanta beat Pittsburgh for its eighth consecutive victory.

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Swanson and Travis d’Arnaud each drove in a run for the Braves, whose winning streak is their longest since they took nine in a row last August. Atlanta has outscored opponents 55-21 during the streak.

Fried (6-2) worked around eight hits, striking out eight and walking none. His 44 wins since the start of 2019 are most in the NL and second to the Yankees’ Gerrit Cole, with 48.

In his last 10 starts, Fried is 6-0 with a 2.11 ERA. RAYS 2, CARDINALS 1 » Shane McClanahan pitched eight superb innings to win his fifth consecutive start and Tampa Bay completed a three-game sweep of visiting St. Louis.

Ji-Man Choi hit a tworun homer in the fourth as the Rays moved a seasonhigh 11 games over .500.

McClanahan (7-2) allowed one unearned run, two hits, walked one and struck out nine. The lefty, who leads the majors with 98 strikeouts, has given up just five runs over 40 innings in his last six starts.

Miles Mikolas (4-4) had an eight-inning complete game, allowing three hits and striking out nine.

With both pitchers in control, the game at Tropicana Field was played in 1 hour, 54 minutes.

ROCKIES 4, GIANTS 2 » Yonathan Daza looped a tiebreaking single into right field, capping a three-run fourth fueled by three errors, and Colorado rallied past host San Francisco.

The Giants made a seasonhigh four errors, including two in the fourth by second baseman Thairo Estrada.

Charlie Blackmon, who had three hits, reached leading off the fourth when Estrada, standing on the right field grass as part of a shift that had three infielders on the right side, dropped his line drive,

C.J. Cron singled between shortstop and second base, then took second when center fielder Austin Slater airmailed the throw off the fencing in front of the thirdbase dugout for an error.

Brendan Rodgers’ RBI single off Logan Webb (5-2) cut the Rockies’ deficit to 2-1. With the infield at double-play depth, Ryan McMahon hit a hopper that kicked off the heel of Estrada’s glove for another error.

Daza’s single put the Rockies ahead 3-2, and McMahon added a run-scoring single in the seventh.

Austin Gomber (3-6) allowed two runs and five hits in six innings.

Webb gave up three runs — two earned — and seven hits in 5 2/3 innings.

San Francisco had won 18 consecutive home starts by Webb since a loss to the Dodgers on Aug. 27, 2020. MARLINS 7, NATIONALS 4 » Jazz Chisholm bunted for a hit on the first pitch of Stephen Strasburg’s return from a one-year absence, stole second and the Marlins kept on going in a win over visiting Washington that finished a three-game sweep.

The 33-year-old righthander, pitching on the 13th anniversary of Washington selecting him with the first overall pick in the amateur draft, allowed seven runs, eight hits and two walks in 4 2/3 innings.

Strasburg struck out five and hit a batter, throwing 63 of 83 pitches for strikes while averaging 91.9 mph with his fastball.

The 2019 World Series MVP had not pitched in a major league game since June 1 last year, spending much of the time recovering from surgery on July 28 to correct thoracic outlet syndrome, a compression of nerves, arteries or veins near the neck or armpit. He had made three minor league rehabilitation starts.

The Marlins had been 0-12 in 15 games started by Strasburg since May 5, 2015. His record against them dropped to 21-8.

Trevor Rogers (3-5) allowed two runs and six hits in five innings.

YANKEES 10, TWINS 7 » Gerrit Cole gave up home runs to his first three batters and a career-high five in 2 1/3 innings but visiting New York rallied to beat Minnesota behind two home runs from Joey Gallo.

Cole left trailing 7-3, and the Yankees tied the score in the sixth when Aaron Hicks hit a two-run homer.

Five of Minnesota’s first 16 batters homered off Cole, who had never before allowed more than three in a game. He allowed seven runs and eight hits, his ERA rising from 2.78 to 3.63.

Lucas Luetge, Miguel Castro (3-0), Wandy Peralta, Michael King and Clay Holmes combined for 6 2/3 innings of scoreless, one-hit relief.

Gallo hit a two-run homer in the second off Dylan Bundy and combined with DJ LeMahieu for backto-back homers in the fifth.

Minnesota’s Luis Arraez, Byron Buxton and Carlos Correa became the seventh trio of teammates to open a game with three straight home runs, starting a barrage against Cole. The only previous team to lose after starting with three homers was San Diego to San Francisco on April 13, 1987.

Buxton gave the Twins a 6-3 lead in the second with a three-run homer for his third two-homer game this season. Trevor Larnach hit a solo homer in the third.