Kyle Schwarber has been giving left-handed relievers fits all season. Entering Friday’s game, the slugger had slashed .305/.418/.732 with 10 home runs and a 1.150 OPS in 98 plate appearances against southpaw relief pitchers.

Jose Tena hit a go-ahead, two-run single in the seventh inning, Paul DeJong homered for the third time in five games and the Washington Nationals rallied past the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2.

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Kyle Schwarber has become one of the most consistent power hitters in Major League Baseball. Schwarber, 32, who has spent time with four teams during his 11-year MLB career, has found the most individual success with his current team,

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/phillies as Phillies' Kyle Schwarber Chasing Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa for Impressive Feat. As the Philadelphia Phillies look to bounce back from a tough series against the Cincinnati Reds, the team will have a great chance to do so against the Washington Nationals.

The Cincinnati Reds are certainly interested. Schwarber is from Middletown, Ohio, not far from Cincy, and when the Phillies played there recently, the Reds had Schwarber's father and his youth baseball coach throw out ceremonial first pitches that the visiting Schwarber caught.

At the final out of Phillies-Nationals, Alec Bohm was 2 for 4 in Triple-A Lehigh Valley’s Thursday night game. That puts him at 3 for 16 overall in four rehab outings as he works his way back from a fractured left rib.