Scoreless Streak: Death & Rebirth. Diamondbacks 5, Phillies 4

Apr 10, 2026; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Brandon Marsh (16) hits a three-run home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning at Citizens Bank Park. Mandatory Credit: Kyle Ross-Imagn Images | Kyle Ross-Imagn Images The Phillies gazed upon their scoreless streak and said: no more. And so it was, in the bottom of the first inning on April 10th, 2026, that Trea Turner singled to left, and Kyle Schwarber walked, and Bryce Harper hit one to right to score Turner.

The scoreless streak thus passed away at the age of twenty innings. It loved strikeouts and weakly hit fly balls, and its recipe for GIDPs was the envy of the neighborhood. It will be mourned by few who knew it.

Brandon Marsh, not inclined to let said streak pass gracefully, proceeded to dance on its grave by blasting an opposite-field homer to give the Phillies a 4-0 lead. Speaking of Marsh, he was occupying an unusual role: that of cleanup hitter. It’s not entirely new to him (he did it five times last year), but it is a less typical spot for the hirsute hero.

But he had 11 hits in nine games coming into tonight, and he was playing against a team that offers so few lefty pitchers that they might really believe the old fiction about lefties being agents of evil, and so putting him at the four spot seemed like smart dealing. Smart dealing was what Jesús Luzardo was doing, too, at least for a while. He had little trouble handling the Diamondbacks allowing no hits through four, along with six K’s.