Final score: Phillies 4, Braves 3

Much has been and will be made of the Phillies’ younger position players’ performance — or lack thereof — early this season, and it matters. But the Phillies are built around their stars. To go where they want, they’ll need those stars to take them.

Wednesday was an example. Bryce Harper battled back from an early 0-2 hole to flip the game on its head with a two-run homer in the seventh. Tied up again, Trea Turner picked a great time for his first homer of the season, taking star reliever Raisel Iglesias yard for a go-ahead shot in the ninth. And the Phillies avoided dropping a second straight game to a Braves team that started the series 1-8.

It made good on a second straight effective, if not stress-free, spot start by Taijuan Walker. He lost his command a bit in the fifth, but he held the Braves scoreless through 4 2/3 to keep his ERA perfect in almost 11 innings on the year. It’s far more than what the Phillies could’ve reasonably asked for when Ranger Suárez hit the injured list.

The Phillies’ bullpen was tested. Rob Thomson had to piece together 4 1/3 innings from a group that’s seen its ups and downs early on. It meant a wraparound inning for José Ruiz; an attempted two frames for Joe Ross; four outs for José Alvarado.

None of it was clean, even from Alvarado, who put runners on the corners with two outs only to strike out Sean Murphy on a nasty cutter to end it.

The Phillies, among the least frequent strikeout victims in the league so far, struck out 14 times. Three of them came from Kyle Schwarber. Four came from Alec Bohm, whose average is down to .178 after an 0-for-5. One came from Brandon Marsh, who’s at .143.

Those clips aren’t sustainable, of course. Neither is Walker’s eight baserunners allowed or the instability in the bullpen. But on Wednesday, the Phillies had Harper, and they had Turner, and it was enough.