Kyle Schwarber warned baseball about Philadelphia Phillies offense weeks ago

If you were surprised by the Philadelphia Phillies power output in the World Series on Tuesday night, you weren’t listening to the words of Kyle Schwarber early in the postseason.

While the Philadelphia Phillies may have flexed their home run muscles in Game 3 of the 2022 World Series against the Houston Astros, Kyle Schwarber tried to warn the baseball world of Philadelphia’s power and plate approach at the start of the postseason.

Flash back to the start of the postseason and the Wild Card round when the Phillies rallied in the ninth inning of Game 1 to stun the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium. Scoring six times in the final frame, Philadelphia logged a 6-3 win, the first step of what has been an incredible postseason run for the sixth-seeded Phillies.

Kyle Schwarber’s Wild Card words about the Philadelphia Phillies at the plate prove prophetic

After the Game 1 win, Schwarber was asked about Philadelphia’s offense and its approach that helped key the late-inning win.

“That’s kind of our mindset right now. It’s all about just trying to win a baseball game, being very disciplined at the plate and having fun while we’re doing it,” Schwarber said that day in St. Louis … and the Phillies have been doing that ever since.

With five home runs off Houston Game 3 starter Lance McCullers Jr. on Tuesday night, the Phillies certainly figured out what McCullers was doing on the mound, perhaps because the Astros starter was tipping his pitches. However, the reaction of the Philadelphia batters after blasting those home runs and the Citizens Bank Park crowd showed just how the Phillies were still taking the same approach in the World Series that they did in the Wild Card round.

In St. Louis, I asked Schwarber about how postseason at-bats might be different than those in the regular season with most teams throwing their best pitchers in October and November.

“To be able to go out there and see some of the best pitching in the game and having to grind things out, from the position player side, that’s something that you look forward to every single day,” Schwarber said. “We want to go out there, and we want to knock out the starter and try to get into the bullpen.”

It’s a recipe that worked well in the Wild Card and every round since for the Phillies, including Game 3 of the World Series on Tuesday night.