Schwarber and Harper lead Phillies' power display in 9-3 victory over the Padres

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kyle Schwarber homered on Joe Musgrove's fourth pitch and Bryce Harper also had one of the Philadelphia Phillies' five home runs in a 9-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.

Musgrove (3-3) allowed a career-high four homers and didn't get out of the fourth.

Aaron Nola (4-1) was brilliant in pitching eight innings for the second straight start. He struck out 10 for the first time this season and 31st time in his career, while holding San Diego to three runs and seven hits, with one walk. His only big mistake was allowing rookie Graham Pauley's two-run homer in the seventh, his second.

There was a scary moment in the second when Harper and Jurickson Profar were shaken up after a tag play at first. Nola hopped off the mound, barehanded Profar’s dribbler and threw to Harper, who tagged Profar. Harper spun around from the impact and Profar fell to the ground. Harper tweaked his wrist, and he jogged around on the grass holding it against his lower back. Both players were checked by trainers and stayed in the game.

Schwarber's shot was his 100th in a Phillies uniform and he became the second-fastest to do so, in 342 games. Ryan Howard did it in 325 games.

His seventh homer of the season went 379 feet, much shorter than his previous three home runs at Petco Park. He hit a jaw-dropping, 488-foot drive into the second deck in right field in Game 1 of the 2022 NL Championship Series, which the Phillies won in five games. Last season he hit homers of 465 and 440 feet in a series in early September.

After being staked to a 2-0 lead in the first, Nola needed just seven pitches to retire the side in the bottom of the inning.

“We have a really good offense and everybody knows that,” Nola said. “Not just average-wise; obviously, the power guys, too. I think the big thing that makes our offense hard to pitch to is they take really good at-bats. They fight to the end and that makes it tough on a pitcher.”

The Phillies took a 6-0 lead after Harper, Brandon Marsh and Nick Castellanos homered in the third.

Harper hit a 396-foot moonshot to right, his sixth, leading off. Marsh drove a two-run homer onto the porch atop the right field wall, with J.T. Realmuto aboard on a double. Castellanos followed with a homer to left-center that just the cleared the fence above center fielder Oscar Azocar's outstretched glove. It was Marsh's sixth and Castellanos' first.

Realmuto hit a two-run homer off Tom Cosgrove in the seventh, his fourth.

Marsh also hit an RBI double in the first.

Marsh said the power surge against Musgrove came from “just being stubborn with the approach. Not coming out of it, trying to not hit the pitches that he wants us to hit and hit the pitches he doesn't want us to hit. We just did a good job of that tonight."

Marsh, the left fielder, robbed Jake Cronenworth of an opposite-field homer in the sixth.

Musgrove was coming off a strong seven-inning performance in a win against Toronto but was done after just 3 2/3 innings Friday night. Besides the career-high four homers, his six earned runs tied the most he's allowed in a start at Petco Park. He joined his hometown team in a trade with Pittsburgh before the 2021 season. He threw the Padres' first no-hitter in his second start, at Texas.

Musgrove allowed eight hits, with four strikeouts and two walks.

San Diego's Manny Machado was activated from the paternity list and played third base for the Padres for the first time since Aug. 31. Bothered by tennis elbow, he finished the season as DH and then had surgery. He opened this season as DH.

TRAINER'S ROOM

Padres: Rookie CF Jackson Merrill was out of the lineup a second straight game with right groin tightness.

UP NEXT

Phillies LHP Ranger Ranger Suárez (4-0, 1.36 ERA) is scheduled to start Saturday night against Padres RHP Dylan Cease (3-1, 1.82).

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San Diego Padres' Graham Pauley runs the bases after hitting a two-run home run against the Philadelphia Phillies during the seventh inning of a baseball game Friday, April 26, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)

San Diego Padres' Graham Pauley, right, celebrates with Manny Machado after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies, Friday, April 26, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)

Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber celebrates after his solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Friday, April 26, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)

Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber, right, celebrates with Bryce Harper (3) after hitting a solo home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, Friday, April 26, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)

Philadelphia Phillies first basemen Bryce Harper reacts after a collision at first with San Diego Padres' Jurickson Profar during the second inning of a baseball game, Friday, April 26, 2024, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Brandon Sloter)

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces unleashed a nighttime barrage of more than 50 cruise missiles and explosive drones at Ukraine’s power grid Wednesday, targeting a wide area in what President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called a “massive” attack.

The bombardment blasted targets in seven Ukrainian regions, including the Kyiv area and parts of the south and west, damaging homes and the country's rail network, authorities said. Three people, including an 8-year-old girl, were injured, according to officials.

Russia has repeatedly pounded Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the war that is stretching into its third year and has claimed thousands of lives. By taking out the power, the Kremlin’s forces aim to rob Ukrainian manufacturing of its energy supply, especially military plants, and crush public morale.

The mass barrages also drain Ukrainian air defenses of ammunition as Kyiv’s depleted forces await delivery of the latest batch of promised Western military support. Ukrainian officials have been pleading for more NATO-standard air defense systems, such as Patriots.

Russia pummeled Ukraine’s energy infrastructure during the “blackout winter” of 2022-23. In March, it launched a new wave of attacks, one of which completely destroyed the Trypilska power plant near Kyiv, one of the country’s biggest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has framed the attacks as retaliation for Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian oil refineries. On Wednesday, a Ukrainian attack hit an oil terminal, injuring five workers and starting a fire, Russia-appointed authorities in the partially occupied Luhansk region said.

Russian bombardments, though frequent, have become less regular in recent weeks, and Ukrainian officials suspect Moscow is stockpiling resources ahead of a major battlefield offensive that could come within weeks.

The 1,000-kilometer (600-mile) front line has changed little since the early months of the war, but Russia has recently made small but steady gains in some areas as Ukraine battles with a lack of manpower and a shortage of weapons.

In a social media post, Zelenskyy noted that Wednesday’s attacks occurred on the day that Ukraine observes the end of European fighting in World War II and equated Ukraine's current struggle with that conflict.

National electrical grid operator Ukrenergo said facilities were hit in the Vinnytsia, Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Poltava and Ivano-Frankivsk regions.

Two energy facilities were hit in the Lviv region, which is in the country’s far west and distant from the fighting’s front lines, according to regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi.

DTEK, Ukraine’s biggest private energy supplier, said the attack “seriously damaged” equipment at three of its thermal power plants.

The attack was the fifth in the last six weeks targeting the company’s facilities, DTEK said. Overall, since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, the company’s assets have come under attack nearly 180 times, injuring 51 workers and killing three, it said.

Russia launched 55 missiles and 21 Shahed drones overnight, the Ukrainian air force said. Air defenses downed 39 of the missiles and 20 of the drones, Ukrainian air force commander Mykola Oleshchuk said.

Russian forces also damaged the railway station building and train tracks in Kherson, national railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia said.

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A woman walks in front of a crater caused by a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Flames burn in a crater following a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Ukrainian servicemen turn over a damaged car at the scene of a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

A man looks at the debris of a car following a Russian missile attack in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

Police experts inspect the site of a Russian missile attack, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (AP Photo/Andriy Andriyenko)

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work at a damaged building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 8, 2024. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP Photo)