Aug 28, 2025, 08:59 PM ET<\/p>\n
PHILADELPHIA — Phillies<\/a> slugger Kyle Schwarber<\/a> hit four home runs Thursday night against Atlanta<\/a> to become the fourth Phillies player and 21st major leaguer to accomplish the feat.<\/p>\n Schwarber was 4 for 6 with a Phillies-record nine RBIs in the 19-4 victory<\/a>. He took the outright National League homer lead with 49 and moved within one of Seattle’s Cal Raleigh<\/a> for the major league lead. Schwarber leads the majors with 119 RBI.<\/p>\n Mike Schmidt was the last Philadelphia player to hit four homers in a game, doing at the Chicago Cubs<\/a> in April 1976. Schwarber had the third four-homer game of the season, following Eugenio Suarez<\/a> and Nick Kurtz<\/a>.<\/p>\n Schwarber’s 49 homers passed Ryan Howard (2008) and Schmidt (1980) for the second most in a season in Phillies history, trailing only Ryan Howard’s 58 in 2006.<\/p>\n The Philadelphia star started the power surge with a solo shot in the first off Cal Quantrill<\/a>, sending a 2-1, curveball into the seats in right field. Schwarber hit a flyout to center in the second.<\/p>\n After Quantrill was lifted with one out and two runners on base in the fourth, Schwarber greeted lefty Austin Cox<\/a> by sending a 3-2 curveball over the wall in right for his fourth multi-homer game of the season.<\/p>\n 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 Philadelphia ahead 15-3. In the seventh, Schwarber hit a three-run shot to right off Wander Suero<\/a> to make it 18-4.<\/p>\n Schwarber popped out in the eighth.<\/p>\n The Associated Press and ESPN Research contribued to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 28, 2025, 08:59 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — Phillies slugger Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs Thursday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-103383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103383","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=103383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}