Kyle Schwarber boosted his MVP campaign with some MLB history on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia Phillies slugger posted MLB’s 21st four-homer game in a blowout of the Atlanta Braves. He joins Eugenio Suarez and Nick Kurtz in accomplishing the feat in 2025, the first time the league has ever seen three four-homer games.<\/p>\n
It’s also the fourth four-homer game in Phillies history, giving them the most of any MLB team. The other three: Ed Delahanty in 1896, Chuck Klein in 1936 and Mike Schmidt in 1976.<\/p>\n
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Schwarber had a chance to become the first player to ever post five homers in a game in the eighth inning, but he popped out against Braves position player pitcher Vidal Bruj\u00e1n.<\/p>\n
The performance pushes Schwarber to a career-high 49 homers on the season, the most in the NL and one behind Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh for the MLB lead.<\/p>\n
Where it leaves Schwarber in the MVP race is a different story.<\/p>\n
How is the Shohei Ohtani-Kyle Schwarber MVP race shaping up?<\/p>\n
Despite some support for Schwarber, Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani entered Thursday as a -5000 favorite for the award. Schwarber holds the statistical edge in homers and RBI when compared to Ohtani, but that’s pretty much it when it comes to offensive stats.<\/p>\n
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And, obviously, Ohtani leads Schwarber 32 1\/3 to 0 in innings pitched. Schwarber has played eight games in left field this season.<\/p>\n
Of course, the last thing you want to do is dig into an MVP argument with a month still to go in the season. One good month for Schwarber (or bad month for Ohtani) could change the math significantly, and a four-homer game is a decent sign there’s more power to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Schwarber boosted his MVP campaign with some MLB history on Thursday. The Philadelphia Phillies slugger posted MLB’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[4996,64,63,6099,74708,6105,5152,1187,591,74709,22899,2365,5162,5149,85,74710],"class_list":["post-103292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cal-raleigh","tag-emilee-chinn","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-kyle-schwarber","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mlb","tag-mvp-race","tag-nick-kurtz","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-sports","tag-vidal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}