Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki outdoes Mike Schmidt to make a new kind of MLB history originally appeared on The Sporting News
Seiya Suzuki is on an absolute tear.
He’s so hot, in fact, that he accomplished something for the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday that no player has ever done in MLB history.
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Here’s the context: Suzuki homered in his last four games of the regular season.
Only three other times has a player entered the postseason on a four-game HR streak, according to MLB Network’s Sarah Langs: Mike Schmidt in 1980, George Brett in 1985 and Ryan Howard in 2007.
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None of that trio homered in their first postseason game to continue the streak.
Suzuki homered on Tuesday in the Cubs’ 3-1 win over the San Diego Padres.
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So he’s the first player to ever take a four-game homer streak into the playoffs and then homer in his first game of that postseason.
Suzuki’s homer was crucial. It was the first of back-to-back blasts with Carson Kelly that sent Chicago on its way to a 3-1 win.
The star outfielder was amazing in the first half of the season, but then he was very cold for most of the second half.
But Suzuki has picked a great time to heat up again, and it gives the Cubs a chance to move on with one more win over the Padres.
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