Only 21 players in Major League history have hit four home runs in a single game, and Kyle Schwarber is now one of them.<\/p>\n
The former Boston Red Sox slugger had a game for the ages on Thursday night, going 4-for-6 with four homers and nine RBI<\/a> to pace the Philadelphia Phillies\u2019 19-4 rout of the Miami Marlins.<\/p>\n Schwarber electrified the 41,293 fans at Citizens Bank Park with his quartet of homers. He went yard in his first at-bat in the bottom of the first, drilling a 450-foot solo shot into the second deck in right field off Cal Quantrill to put the Phillies on the board.<\/p>\n The three-time All-Star flew out in his second at-bat, but greeted reliever Austin Cox with a 383-foot two-run blast to right in the bottom of the fourth.<\/p>\n Schwarber took Cox deep again his next time up, smacking a 378-foot three-run shot over the left-field wall in the bottom of the fifth for his third home run of the game.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Schwarber\u2019s record-tying fourth blast \u2014 a 407-foot two-run shot to right field \u2014 came off Wander Suero in the bottom of the seventh. He got one chance to break the record in the bottom of the eighth, but popped out on the infield fly rule in his final at-bat of the night.<\/p>\n