Hoskins heads Phils' power surge in Game 4 win

PHILADELPHIA -- In a athletics that often defies logic, Philadelphia Phillies close fielder Nick Castellanos has a elemental mentation for the Phillies' comeback from a disastrous apical of the archetypal inning successful Saturday's Game 4 of the National League Championship Series: "It's pugnacious to play successful the jungle, man."

After the San Diego Padres roared retired of the gross with 4 runs successful the first, the Phillies roared close backmost with 3 runs successful the bottommost of the archetypal -- connected their mode to a four-homer, 10-run outburst successful a 10-6 triumph that enactment the Phillies 1 triumph distant from reaching their archetypal World Series since 2009.

"We knew the assemblage was going to beryllium a factor," archetypal baseman Rhys Hoskins said arsenic the Phillies improved to 4-0 astatine Citizens Bank Park successful the postseason portion scoring 31 runs and hitting .313 -- successful a postseason wherever runs person different been scarce. "We're assured successful that. We saw that successful the NLDS. And we consciousness similar it's a large portion of erstwhile you get those innings rolling, you get a mates guys on, it gets a small louder. You get the 1 large hit, it gets louder, and that's wherever you tin truly snowball things."

The apical of the Phillies' lineup was throwing snowballs each crippled long. Their apical 5 hitters delivered large nights arsenic they each got astatine slightest 2 hits oregon scored astatine slightest 2 runs, going a combined 9-for-18 with 7 extra-base hits and each 10 runs scored. The biggest leader was Rhys Hoskins, who deed 2 important two-run location runs for a four-RBI game.

Hoskins' archetypal location tally followed Kyle Schwarber's leadoff azygous successful the bottommost of the first, aft the Padres had struck for a four-run outburst disconnected Bailey Falter. Hoskins worked the number afloat against Padres starter Mike Clevinger, who threw a 94-mph fastball close down the mediate that Hoskins drilled 384 feet to left-center.

"A batch of america said '27 outs,' aft the apical of the archetypal inning," Hoskins said. "We've been down before. We knew with a bullpen game, the anticipation of aggregate guys having to beryllium enactment successful positions that they're not utilized to being in, that we were going to person to slug. We did that tonight."

His 2nd location tally was adjacent much impressive. Padres left-hander Sean Manaea was connected successful relief, making his archetypal quality of the postseason. With the Padres starring 6-4, Schwarber worked a one-out locomotion and Padres manager Bob Melvin near successful Manaea, who had a 6.44 ERA successful the 2nd half, to look the right-handed Hoskins.

With the number 1-1, Hoskins crushed a sinker astatine the knees, 417 feet with a 108.4-mph exit velocity to a akin country of the left-center stands. The location tally tied the crippled and Citizens Bank Park exploded successful a frenzy.

"There's cipher connected the squad that deserves those moments much than Rhys," Castellanos said. "He's been present from the beginning, he's been done a batch of losing here, he's been done the hard times, truthful to beryllium connected this signifier and to travel done similar this, I couldn't beryllium happier for him."

It was the eighth two-homer crippled successful Phillies postseason past and the archetypal since Chase Utley successful Game 5 of the 2009 World Series. While Hoskins said helium appreciates shot past -- particularly Phillies past and being mentioned alongside Utley and different Phillies greats -- successful the past he's said he's bushed of proceeding astir the 2008 World Series champion club. He wants to marque his ain history.

Now he's learning what 2008 was like.

"It feels similar we're surviving it, yeah. The reddish towels, it's deafening loud, right? Like, yeah, conscionable the full scene. And arsenic soon arsenic you measurement connected the field, truly successful batting practice, you tin conscionable benignant of consciousness the energy building," helium said. "I request immoderate more. I request immoderate much of it."

For the Padres, Clevinger's abbreviated outing -- 15 pitches and nary outs -- near Melvin needing to get 9 innings retired of his bullpen.

"This was astir apt 1 of the worst days of my life," Clevinger said. "That sums it up. It sucks."

Nick Martinez pitched 3 cleanable innings earlier Manaea entered successful the 4th and allowed a run. He came backmost for a 2nd inning of enactment successful the fifth. After Hoskins' location tally tied the game, J.T. Realmuto walked and Bryce Harper lashed a ringing treble to left-center to people Realmuto with the go-ahead run.

"I was going to effort to get [Manaea] 1 clip astir the lineup," Melvin explained. "I thought his worldly was better. He had 95. He had swings and misses erstwhile helium got into the zone, but helium couldn't find it. The 2nd inning, 4 batters, 5 batters, it happened beauteous quickly."

The Phillies are cautious not to get up of themselves, but they are oozing with assurance -- particularly with ace Zack Wheeler going successful Game 5 and coming disconnected a masterful outing successful Game 1 erstwhile helium allowed conscionable 1 deed implicit 7 scoreless innings.

"I've said this a mates times successful the past mates of I days, and I'm atrocious it's getting redundant," Hoskins said. "You can't constitute it amended for the guys successful that room, for the staff, for everybody successful this organization, but I deliberation astir importantly for the city. Yeah, you can't constitute it better. I can't ideate what time is going to beryllium like."