The Philadelphia Phillies are well on their way to winning the NL East, as their lead over the New York Mets ballooned to nine games following their 9-3 win over them on Tuesday night. While it was a team effort that powered Philly to victory, one man stood tall as the biggest star of the night, with Kyle Schwarber reaching the 50-home run mark for the season in grand fashion when he hit a three-run dinger off Mets reliever Justin Hagenman to give the Phillies a 7-1 lead in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Schwarber became just the second player in Phillies franchise history to hit 50 or more long balls in a single season, joining Ryan Howard, who hit 58 home runs in his MVP season in 2006. After the game, Schwarber joined the NBC Sports Philadelphia broadcast and gave his immediate

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