Chase Shugart Spurs Phillies Baseball Sweep With Two Walk-Off Wins
Phillies baseball pulled off two walk-off wins in Thursday’s doubleheader against the Giants, and Chase Shugart earned both victories. The sweep matched a feat the club had not pulled off since July 24, 1998, when the Phillies last walked off twice in one day.
Shugart Ends The First Game
Shugart handled the first finish under pressure. He entered with two outs in the top of the ninth inning and struck out Matt Chapman on four pitches, then was the winning pitcher again when the second game ended 6-5.
That moved him from four career wins since his major league debut in 2024 to six after Thursday’s pair. He also gave the Phillies two clean late-game exits on a day when the margin for error disappeared quickly.
Bohm Changes The Second Game
Alec Bohm shaped the second win at both ends of the inning. In the top of the 10th, he made a diving catch on a line drive to rob Luis Arráez and freeze the runner at third base, then in the bottom half he lifted a walk-off sacrifice fly to center field.
Bohm called the plan against Arráez, saying, “Just move around, see if we can get him to hit something at us.” The sequence was sharper than his early-season line suggested; he was batting.151 with a.426 OPS through 29 games and had already dropped to sixth in the order after previously being a mainstay in the cleanup spot last year.
Schwarber, Turner, And Bohm
The second game also opened with Kyle Schwarber and Trea Turner going back-to-back in the first inning. That early burst never settled the game, but it gave the Phillies the runway they needed before the late innings turned again.
Schwarber saw Bohm’s response up close and said, “He’s going to keep going, he’s going to keep battling,” while Bohm returned the praise to Shugart: “Taking the ball twice in one day, and not just taking the ball, getting two wins, is pretty cool. But that’s the type of guy that you want to battle with.”
For the Phillies, the rare part is now the result itself: two walk-off wins in one doubleheader, and both times Shugart got the decision. The next numbers that matter are the ones he changed on the spot — six wins instead of four, and a sweep that put Thursday in a class the club had not reached in 22 years.
