Trea Turner reaches 1,500 hit milestone as Phillies' offense dominates Mariners

Lochlahn March, The Philadelphia Inquirer on Aug 18, 2025

Published in Baseball

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PHILADELPHIA — On Sunday afternoon against the Washington Nationals, Trea Turner hit an infield ground-ball, and the Phillies jumped into action to retrieve the ball.

His two hits earlier in the day brought him to 1,499 in his career, putting him on the brink of personal history. For a moment, the Phillies believed his grounder — deflected by pitcher Orlando Ribalta — had given him the milestone.

But it was officially ruled an error, and Turner’s journey to 1,500 career hits was extended another day.

When he did finally reach it, he made sure there wasn’t any doubt. Turner crushed a three-run homer to the left field seats in the second inning against the Seattle Mariners on Monday, which was also his first homer at Citizens Bank Park all year. His first 12 home runs of the season came on the road.

After that, the hits kept coming, for Turner and the rest of the Phillies. The team recorded a season-high 21 hits. Turner had four of them, as the Phillies steamrolled past the Mariners to a 12-7 win.

All nine starters recorded at least one hit by the end of a six-run second inning. Turner finished a triple shy of the cycle, and Bryce Harper clubbed his two longest home runs of the season: a 440-foot solo blast in the sixth inning, and a 448-foot two-run shot in the seventh.

The offense backed up a rebound performance from starter Ranger Suárez, who held the Mariners to two earned runs over 6 2/3 innings. He silenced major league home run leader Cal Raleigh, who finished 0 for 5 on the night.

In Suárez’s last start in Cincinnati, he allowed a season-high 10 hits and had diminished command. On Monday, he struck out 10 and walked zero batters.

He kept the Mariners off the scoreboard until the seventh inning, when Mitch Garver got ahold of a full-count cutter and sent it over the center-field wall. Suárez then hit Dominic Canzone with a pitch, and was replaced by Jordan Romano.

Romano faced the bottom of the order, tasked with getting one out. But he gave up a bloop single that dropped into shallow left field, before serving up a slider to nine-hole hitter Cole Young, who capitalized with a three-run home run to cut the Phillies’ lead to 7-4.

The offense responded right away in the bottom of the inning. Max Kepler started the rally with a single. Turner doubled, and came home on a Kyle Schwarber single, before Harper hit his biggest blast of the season so far.

Nolan Hoffman, recalled earlier on Monday to give the Phillies a fresh arm in the bullpen, made his major league debut in the ninth. He allowed three runs on three hits and a walk, but struck out Raleigh swinging to end the game.