2 days Ago By Field Level Media
Trea Turner hit more than 20 homers in each of the past two seasons, but he's never been known as a slugger during his standout career. But in the short term, Philadelphia will take power from any source it can find. That includes Turner, who will look to follow a two-homer game when the Phillies visit the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.
Turner hit 861 feet of homers in Philadelphia's 6-4 victory over the Cubs in Tuesday's opener of the three-game series. That gives Turner five homers in 46 games this season. But the timing was great since Bryce Harper (hamstring) and Kyle Schwarber (groin) joined J.
T. Realmuto (knee) on the 10-day injured list last week. Harper has a team-best 20 homers and Schwarber has 17.
Turner, who went 3-for-5 with four RBIs on Tuesday, hit a 422-foot solo blast into the stands in left center in the third inning. In the fifth, Turner walloped a fastball 439 feet, a two-run homer that cleared the stands in left onto Waveland Avenue. He added an RBI single in the seventh to record his second straight three-hit game and fourth multi-hit game in his past six outings.
Turner is 11-for-27 (.407) during the stretch. But he certainly wasn't thinking about hitting homers when he stepped into the batter's box.
"It's that fine line of trying to make an impact but not trying to do too much," Turner said. "A few days ago, I was trying a little too hard. Now, I feel the swing is getting there.
I was getting good pitches to hit and just not missing them." The Philli.
