Harper, Sosa, Realmuto homer to lead Phillies past Rangers 11-4 and to best start in team history

Rob Thomson watched Bryce Harper and J.T. Realmuto hit solo homers and Edmundo Sosa hit a three-run shot to lead the Philadelphia Phillies past the Texas Rangers 11-4 on Wednesday night in a game that gave them the best 50-game start in baseball since Seattle in 2001 and came away with one question about the Mariners. “What'd they do?" Thomson asked. The third-year Phillies manager asked the rhetorical question because he knew exactly the fate of those Mariners who started 38-12 and won 116 games. “That's right,” Thomson said.