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Kyle Schwarber puts exclamation point in Phillies' Game 1 win

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SAN DIEGO — There are only so many ways human beings can describe an event that occupies fewer than three seconds of their lives, a fact that was put to the test repeatedly after Kyle Schwarber hit a 488-foot home run in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Tuesday night at Petco Park.

Schwarber's sixth-inning solo homer — the longest in the 18-year history of Petco Park — in the Philadelphia Phillies' 2-0 win over the San Diego Padres provided a brief but stunning moment of energy on a night that was defined by a distinct lack of activity.

The combined totals: four hits, eight baserunners, 20 strikeouts. It had a couple of moments, but this was not a stirring advertisement for the game.

The Phillies won because two of the hits were solo homers — Bryce Harper's in the fourth, then Schwarber's — and because Phillies starter Zack Wheeler ground the Padres lineup into a fine paste over seven innings of one-hit, 8-strikeout mastery.

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