PHILADELPHIA — Slugger Kyle Schwarber hit four home runs Thursday night against the Atlanta Braves to become the fourth Philadelphia Phillies player and 21st major-leaguer to accomplish the feat.
Schwarber was 4-for-6 with a Phillies-record nine RBIs in the 19-4 victory. He took the National League home run lead with 49 and moved within one of the Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh for the major-league lead. Schwarber, who played for the Chicago Cubs from 2015-20, leads the majors with 119 RBIs.
“It’s pretty cool,” Schwarber said. “It was a fun night, great atmosphere. Wouldn’t want to do it with a better group of guys than we have here.”
Mike Schmidt was the last Phillies player to hit four homers in a game, doing against the Chicago Cubs in April 1976 at Wrigley Field. Schwarber had the third four-home-run game of the season, following Eugenio Suárez
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and Nick Kurtz.“It just cooperated,” Schwarber said. “You 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.”
The Phillies star started the power surge with a solo shot in the first off Cal Quantrill, sending a 2-1 curveball into the right-field seats. Schwarber hit a flyout to center in the second.
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 multihomer game of the season.
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 the Phillies ahead 15-3. In the seventh, Schwarber hit a three-run shot to right off Wander Suero to make it 18-4.
Schwarber popped out in the eighth.
“I stink against position players,” Schwarber quipped. “All you’re trying to do is get a good pitch. I got the pitch. Just popped it up.”
Schwarber, 32, has 333 home runs in 11 seasons with the Cubs and the Phillies. His previous career high was 47 in 2023.