Phillies pound Joe Musgrove early in rout of Padres

The phone did not ring in the bullpen until after the third home run of the third inning.

Musgrove was able to get the next two outs to end the third. But with the right-hander having passed 80 pitches, Estrada began warming up as Musgrove was getting the first out of the fourth inning.

Estrada, recalled from Triple-A on Friday, would enter with two down and a runner on second after Trea Turner singled and stole second on Harper’s strikeout.

Alec Bohm greeted Estrada with an RBI single to left field before Estrada ended the inning with a long fly ball out.

The right-hander allowed just a walk while getting the next six outs.

The Phillies went up 9-1 on J.T. Realmuto’s two-run homer off Cosgrove in the seventh. Kolek took over for Cosgrove after the first two batters reached base in the eighth.

Schwarber’s homer and two-out doubles by Bohm and Marsh had started the evening ominously for Musgrove.

He is occasionally more hittable in the first inning before settling into starts. But he never settled in Friday.

Manny Machado, playing third base for the first time since Aug. 31, 2023, helped Musgrove out with one of his signature plays to save a run and end the first inning.

With runners at second and third, Castellanos grounded a ball down the line that Machado backhanded and fired across the diamond on one bounce to first baseman Jake Cronenworth.

That kept the score 2-0.

The bad news was that the Phillies came to San Diego having won eight of their previous 10 games in large part because their starting pitchers have been remarkably good.

In those 10 games, Phillies starters had combined for eight quality starts and a 0.83 ERA.

Nola took seven pitches to get through the first inning and three pitches to get the first two outs of the second before Ha-Seong Kim worked a seven-pitch walk. That was followed by Luis Campusano’s single and a drive to the wall by Graham Pauley that was caught by Castellanos.

After a lead-off single by Jose Azocar and two-out double by Cronenworth in the third inning got the Padres on the board, Nola retired nine consecutive batters.

He would strike out 10 over eight innings. Among the seven hits he allowed was Pauley’s two-run homer, launched 419 feet to straightaway center in the seventh, which provided the final margin.