Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber Becomes 21st In Mlb History With Four Homers In A Game

Philadelphia slugger Kyle Schwarber deed 4 location runs Thursday nighttime against Atlanta to go nan 21st awesome leaguer and 4th Phillies subordinate to execute nan feat.

Schwarber was 4 for 6 pinch a Phillies-record 9 RBIs successful nan 19-4 victory. He took nan outright National League homer lead pinch 49 and moved wrong 1 of Seattle’s Cal Raleigh for nan awesome convention lead. Schwarber leads nan fields pinch 119 RBIs.

Mike Schmidt was nan past Philadelphia subordinate to deed 4 homers successful a game, doing astatine nan Chicago Cubs successful April 1976. Schwarber had nan 3rd four-homer crippled of nan season, pursuing Eugenio Suárez and Nick Kurtz.

The Philadelphia prima started nan powerfulness surge pinch a solo changeable successful nan first disconnected Cal Quantrill, sending a 2-1, curveball into nan seats successful correct field. Schwarber deed a flyout to halfway successful nan second.

After Quantrill was lifted pinch 1 retired and 2 runners connected guidelines successful nan fourth, Schwarber greeted lefty Austin Cox by sending a 3-2 curveball complete nan wall successful correct for his 4th multi-homer crippled of nan season.

With “M-V-P! M-V-P!” chants ringing down from Phillies fans successful nan fifth, Schwarber launched a three-run, opposite-field thrust disconnected Cox to put Philadelphia up 15-3. In nan seventh, Schwarber deed a three-run changeable to correct disconnected Wander Suero to make it 18-4.

Schwarber popped retired successful nan eighth.