Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber made historical past on Thursday night time towards the Atlanta Braves (PHI 19, ATL 4) when he tied an MLB document with 4 house runs in a single recreation. He turns into the twenty first participant in MLB historical past with a four-homer recreation and third of the 2025 season. Rookie Nick Kurtz of the Athletics hit 4 house runs on July 25 towards the Astros, and Eugenio Suárez, then of the Diamondbacks, did it towards those self same Braves on April 26 of this 12 months. Previous to that, nobody had homered 4 occasions in the identical recreation since J.D. Martinez in 2017.
Here is a take a look at the history-making seventh-inning homer by Schwarber:
And here is the choice angle on historical past:
Schwarber is the fourth Phillies participant to hit 4 house runs in a recreation and first since Corridor of Famer Mike Schmidt in 1976. Previous to that, Chuck Klein of the Phillies had a four-homer recreation in 1936, and Ed Delahanty did the identical in 1896. The Phillies are actually the primary franchise to have 4 hitters with four-homer video games.
Schwarber’s first homer of the night time got here within the opening body, a 450-foot shot off Cal Quantrill. Then within the fourth, he went deep off lefty reliever Austin Cox. Homer No. 3 got here within the fifth, once more off Cox, and Schwarber now has 19 house runs off left-handers this season.
Schwarber got here up once more within the backside of the eighth with an opportunity to hit his fifth house run of the night time, and he bought an opportunity to take his hacks towards a place participant — Braves utility man Vidal Bruján. Sadly for Schwarber, he popped up a 57.4-mph breaking ball (?) from Bruján.
The Residents Financial institution Park crowd, although, showered him in appreciation as he made his method again to the dugout:
He is simply the fourth participant in MLB historical past to have 4 house runs and at the very least 9 RBI in a single recreation. These 9 RBI are Phillies single-game franchise document. With the titan’s effort, Schwarber is now slashing .248/.370/.586 on the season, which places him at the very least on the periphery of the NL MVP dialogue on this, his stroll 12 months. Schwarber got here into Thursday’s recreation tied with Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers for the Nationwide League lead with 45 house runs. He now has 49, one shy of Cal Raleigh‘s MLB lead.
The win was an important one for the first-place Phillies, particularly coming off a three-game sweep by the hands of the rival Mets.
