19-4 victory<\/a>. He took the outright National League homer lead with a career-high 49 and moved within one of Seattle\u2019s Cal Raleigh for the major league lead. Schwarber leads the majors with a career-high 119 RBIs. <\/p>\n\u201cIt\u2019s pretty cool,\u201d Schwarber said. \u201cIt was a fun night, great atmosphere. Wouldn\u2019t want to do it with a better group of guys than we have here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mike Schmidt was the last Philadelphia player to hit four homers in a game, doing at the Chicago Cubs in April 1976. Schwarber had the third four-homer game of the season, following Eugenio Su\u00e1rez and Nick Kurtz.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just cooperated,\u201d Schwarber said. \u201cYou can do everything right and get out, and you can do everything wrong and get a hit. Got some pitches and put some good swings on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Philadelphia star started the power surge with a solo shot in the first off Cal Quantrill, 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 by sending a 3-2 curveball over the wall in right for his fourth multi-homer game of the season.<\/p>\n
With \u201cM-V-P! M-V-P!\u201d 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 to make it 18-4.<\/p>\n
Schwarber popped out in the eighth.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stink against position players,\u201d Schwarber joked. \u201cAll you\u2019re trying to do is get a good pitch. I got the pitch. Just popped it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Schwarber has 333 homers in 11 seasons in the majors with the Cubs and the Phillies. His previous career high was 47 in 2023 for Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
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