Alec

Bohm

Bohm launched a three-run homer off Dean Kremer in the top of the sixth to bring the game within a run. He later added an RBI single that tied things up in the eighth. The 30-year-old corner infielder has been on fire this month, having entered Sunday batting .367 with an .888 OPS.

Bohm raised his season average from .230 to .239 in one day. He hit three doubles and two singles as he went 5-for-5 with two runs scored and an RBI in the win over the Twins on Saturday. Bohm entered the month hitting .223 and now has hits in 11-of-14 games so far in August. He’s hitting .239 with a .674 OPS and 64 RBI.

Schwarber draws an extremely rare start at the cold corner with Alec Bohm taking a seat in this one. The 33-year-old veteran slugger will be making just his third appearance at the spot this season. He’s highly unlikely to see enough action there over the final two months to pick up eligibility there in most fantasy leagues.

Bohm also came up with two on in the eighth, but he grounded into a double play then. Not that the Phillies needed runs in an 11-4 game at that point. Bohm is hitting just .218 this month, but he has four homers, five doubles and 14 RBI in 20 games. He’s knocked in 33 runs in 46 games since the beginning of June.

Bohm is 7-for-21 with a homer and three RBI in five games to start the second half. He’ll probably break the .230-average, .650-OPS barrier at some point here, but it’s been rough sledding so far. He definitely will need to step it up in order to avoid taking a pay cut as a free agent this winter; he’s making $10.2 million right now, but no one is going to want to pay him that much this winter unless he rakes for a couple of months.

Bohm’s home run was his 12th of the season. He hit a solo shot off A.J. Minter in the sixth inning, which accounted for the Phillies’ lone run in a 6-1 loss to the Mets. Bohm has already eclipsed his home run total from last year (11), but his .640 OPS is on pace to be the worst of his career.

Bohm is batting .273 with 10 homers and 31 RBI in his last 49 games. He’s still not guaranteed to be especially valuable going forward, but with the Phillies committed to hitting him in the middle of the order, he has a legitimate shot at 100 RBI in his final year before free agency.

Bohm got the Phillies on the board with an RBI single off of Sean Manaea in the first inning that plated Trea Turner. He then smacked a double down the right field line that drove in Kyle Schwarber in the third inning, pulling the Phillies to within a run at 3-2. With his two-hit attack, the 29-year-old infielder is now slashing .232/.283/.375 on the season with nine homers and 41 RBI in 283 plate appearances.

The stolen base was his first of the season. The veteran corner infielder spent mid-April through mid-May batting in the bottom third of the Phillies’ lineup, but he’s been a fixture at cleanup or fifth since then. Bohm is hitting just .224/.282/.359 as he prepares to enter free agency this offseason.

It was Bohm and Bryson stepping up for the Phillies tonight, as Stott hit a go-ahead homer after Bohm singled with the club down 4-3 in the eighth. Bohm’s homer off Nick Lodolo came two innings earlier. He’s 15-for-35 with three homers and three doubles during a nine-game hitting streak that has raised his OPS from .433 to .604.