4 Homers for Kyle Schwarber! Phillies Slugger Joins Elite Firm

Philadelphia Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber hit 4 dwelling runs Thursday night time in opposition to Atlanta to turn out to be the fourth Phillies participant and twenty first major-leaguer to perform the feat.

Schwarber was 4 for six with a Phillies-record 9 RBIs within the 19-4 victory. He took the outright Nationwide League homer lead with 49 and moved inside one in every of Seattle’s Cal Raleigh for the main league lead. Schwarber leads the majors with 119 RBIs.

Mike Schmidt was the final Philadelphia participant to hit 4 homers in a video games, doing on the Chicago Cubs in April 1976. Schwarber had the third four-homer sport of the season, following Eugenio Suarez and Nick Kurtz.

The Philadelphia star began the facility surge with a solo shot within the first off Cal Quantrill, sending a 2-1, curveball into the seats in proper area. Scharber hit a flyout to heart within the second.

After Quantrill was lifted with one out and a pair of runners on base within the fourth, Schwarber greeted lefty Austin Cox by sending a 3-2 curveball over the wall in proper for his fourth multi-homer sport of the season.

With “M-V-P! M-V-P!” chants ringing down from Phillies followers within the fifth, Schwarber launched a three-run, opposite-field drive off Cox, giving him 5 RBIs and placing Philadelphia forward 15-3. It’s the fourth time he has hit three homers in a sport.

Reporting by The Related Press. 

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