SAN DIEGO (AP) — Kyle Schwarber struck again at Petco Park, hitting his major league-leading 21st home run to send Jesús Luzardo and the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3-0 win against the San Diego Padres on Monday.
Brandon Marsh added a two-run homer for the Phillies, who had just three hits as they opened a six-game trip through San Diego and Los Angeles. They scored only 14 runs in going 2-4 at home against Cincinnati and Cleveland.
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Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber celebrates after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh watches his two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Jesús Luzardo works against a San Diego Padres batter during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh, right, celebrates with teammate Kyle Schwarber after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Schwarber lined a full-count changeup from Griffin Canning (0-3) onto the party deck atop the right-field wall with one out in the first inning. Former teammate Nick Castellanos took a few steps back and watched it leave the yard at just a 20-degree launch angle.
Including the postseason, Schwarber has 11 homers in 26 career games at Petco Park, seven of them in his last 13 games here.
His most impressive was the jaw-dropping, 488-foot shot into the second deck in right field off Yu Darvish in Game 1 of the 2022 National League Championship Series, which the Phillies won 2-0 en route to winning the series in five games. It's the longest in Petco Park's 23-season history.
Schwarber also hit a 465-foot homer deep into the first deck in right on Sept. 6, 2023.
Schwarber was aboard on a leadoff single when Marsh homered to right with two outs in the seventh, his fifth.
Luzardo (4-4) allowed four hits, struck out six and walked two in six innings. Jhoan Duran pitched the ninth for his 10th save, completing a five-hitter.
The Padres continued to struggle offensively. They loaded the bases with no outs in the first before Luzardo struck out Manny Machado and Jackson Merrill, and got Castellanos to ground out. The Padres had runners on the corners with one out in the third before Machado grounded into a double play.
Phillies RHP Aaron Nola (2-4, 6.04 ERA) and Padres RHP Randy Vásquez are scheduled to start Tuesday night.
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Philadelphia Phillies' Kyle Schwarber celebrates after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh watches his two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Jesús Luzardo works against a San Diego Padres batter during the second inning of a baseball game Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Philadelphia Phillies' Brandon Marsh, right, celebrates with teammate Kyle Schwarber after hitting a two-run home run during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the San Diego Padres Monday, May 25, 2026, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Emergency officials lifted an evacuation order Monday for some of the people who live near a damaged tank containing hazardous chemicals in Southern California after temperatures inside the tank fell enough to eliminate the risk of a catastrophic explosion.
There is no longer a risk of catastrophic explosion of the tank containing methyl methacrylate at the GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems plant in Garden Grove, near Los Angeles, Orange County Fire Authority division chief Craig Covey said during a news conference.
Officials ordered about 50,000 Garden Grove residents to evacuate their homes on Thursday after the tank overheated and pressure built up inside. A crack that was discovered Sunday has relieved some of that pressure and the temperature of the highly flammable gas inside is continuing to fall, authorities said.
An overnight evaluation of the tank containing 6,000 to 7,000 gallons (22,700 to 26,500 liters) of methyl methacrylate produced “incredibly positive news,” Covey said earlier Monday, although the risk to public safety is “ongoing.”
Authorities have detected no hazardous chemical levels as of Monday.
Officials said they needed to cool the tank to prevent a toxic leak or explosion. The tank’s interior had cooled to 93 degrees F (33.9 degrees C), Covey said Monday, down from 100 degrees (37.7 degrees C) a day earlier.
The tank might eventually cool enough for crews to safely stabilize and drain the remaining material without triggering a spark or ignition, said Andrew Whelton, a Purdue University engineering professor who has studied environmental contamination.
Whelton cautioned there is still some risk of an explosion while the chemical inside the tank remains hot and reactive. He said temperatures need to fall closer to ambient levels — roughly 60 to 70 degrees Fahrenheit (15.6 to 21.1 degrees C) — before conditions are considered significantly safer.
After the tank overheated on Thursday and pressure built, officials said it began releasing vapors. As the interior temperature rises, methyl methacrylate — which is used to make plastics — converts from liquid to gas, increasing the pressure and risk of explosion, Whelton said.
Some of the methyl methacrylate may already have hardened into a stable plastic similar to plexiglass, reducing the risk inside the tank, he said.
The release of pressure likely released at least some chemical into the atmosphere, and what responders are able to detect depends partly on the type and placement of monitoring equipment.
“If the device isn’t right next to the tank, then it’s not necessarily surprising that they’re not detecting high magnitudes of chemicals,” Whelton said.
Exposure to methyl methacrylate can cause serious respiratory problems, neurological problems and irritation to the skin, eyes and throat, according to an EPA fact sheet.
Orange County health officials said the chemical is easy to smell and people may notice it over a large area without being harmed.
Authorities have not defined what a catastrophic explosion might mean, but said Monday the worst-case scenario is off the table.
Kim Yen, a retiree who was forced to evacuate her Garden Grove home, said she has been closely following the news and was relieved to learn that the worst has passed.
“I am happy and many of us are happy but, still, we are still on our evacuation,” she said.
Yen, who lives two blocks from the plant, said she’s ready to return home but first wants to be sure it’s safe. And, she said, she’s been worried about the emergency crews.
“They are really our heroes,” Yen said.
The parking lot was full Monday at a large park in Fountain Valley, just southwest of Garden Grove, as people sought refuge in an ad hoc shelter there or pitched tents outside. Other people gathered in the park to enjoy Memorial Day.
GKN Aerospace Transparency Systems, which owns the plant, is a British company that makes cockpit windows, canopies and windshields for military and commercial aircraft.
GKN Aerospace technical specialists and the Orange County Fire Authority removed external insulation material from the tank to help cool its contents, according to a GKN Aerospace statement released Monday.
“We apologize for the ongoing disruption this incident is causing and our priority remains its safe resolution, so that residents can return to their homes as quickly as possible,” the statement said.
GKN Aerospace says on its website that it employs about 16,000 people across 32 manufacturing sites in 12 countries and supplies technologies and components used by major commercial and military aircraft manufacturers worldwide.
It remained unknown when the operation would reopen.
GKN Aerospace agreed in 2025 to pay state regulators more than $900,000 to settle violations involving recordkeeping, permitting issues and nitrogen oxide emissions, according to a report on the South Coast Air Quality Management District website.
Disruptions at facilities producing specialized aircraft components can be difficult for the global aerospace industry to absorb because supply chains are highly concentrated and already strained, said Richard Aboulafia, managing director of the aerospace consulting firm AeroDynamic Advisory.
Aboulafia said aerospace manufacturing differs from many other industries because aircraft production rates are relatively low, leaving only a small number of suppliers for many specialized parts and systems.
“There’s just not a lot of margin in the system,” he said.
Willingham reported from Boston. Stengle reported from Dallas. Associated Press journalist Ethan Swope in Garden Grove, California, contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to say the evacuations were ordered Thursday, not Friday.
People tend to their pets outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif., on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
People walk outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif., on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
An American Red Cross volunteer walks outside Freedom Hall, an evacuation center in Fountain Valley, Calif.,on Monday, May 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
An evacuation map is displayed at the incident command post at the Los Alamitos Race Course in Cypress, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Water is sprayed on a damaged tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026, after the tank containing a chemical used to make plastic parts overheated Thursday. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
The streets remain empty in Garden Grove, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026, after a storage tank containing a chemical used to make plastic parts overheated Thursday at an aerospace plastics facility. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Emergency personnel work at the incident command post at the Los Alamitos Race Course Sunday, May 24, 2026, in Cypress, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Water is sprayed on a damaged tank at GKN Aerospace in Garden Grove, Calif., on Sunday, May 24, 2026, after the tank containing a chemical used to make plastic parts overheated Thursday. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
