PHILADELPHIA — Slugger Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs Thursday night against the Atlanta Braves to become the fourth Philadelphia Phillies player and 21st major-leaguer to accomplish the feat.
Schwarber was 4-for-6 with a Phillies-record nine RBIs in the 19-4 victory. He took the National League home run lead with 49 and moved within one of the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh for the major-league lead. Schwarber, who played for the Chicago Cubs from 2015-20, leads the majors with 119 RBIs.
Mike Schmidt was the last Phillies player to hit four homers in a game, doing against the Chicago Cubs in April 1976 at Wrigley Field. Schwarber had the third four-home-run game of the season, following Eugenio Suárez and Nick Kurtz.
The Phillies star started the power surge with a solo shot in the first off Cal Quantrill, sending a 2-1 curveball into the right-field seats. Schwarber hit a flyout to center in the second.
After Quantrill was lifted with one out and two runners on base in the fourth, Schwarber greeted lefty Austin Cox by sending a 3-2 curveball over the wall in right for his fourth multihomer game of the season.
With “M-V-P! M-V-P!” chants ringing down from Phillies fans in the fifth, Schwarber launched a three-run, opposite-field drive off Cox to put the Phillies ahead 15-3. In the seventh, Schwarber hit a three-run shot to right off Wander Suero to make it 18-4.
Schwarber popped out in the eighth.
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