Kyle Schwarber Thought The Home Run Derby Was In August, Becomes 21st Player To Have 4-Home Run Game In MLB History
Emilee Chinn. Getty Images.Baseball is such a funny sport. Kyle Schwarber had previously gone 6 games without a single hit. The Phillies got swept by the Mets at Citi Field, and he got one base twice the whole series with a couple of walks. Just as all the "Kyle Schwarber MVP" talk really started to heat up, he went ice cold for 6 games. You started to think that maybe it was too good to be true.
And then…
Not one. Not two. Not three. But FOUR home runs in a single game while the Phillies put an absolutely shellacking on the Atlanta Braves. He snaps a streak of going 0-for-20 by sending 4 fans home with a souvenir. It's just so crazy how you can go a whole week without being able to see the ball, and then the next moment you become just the 21st player in MLB history to obliterate 4 balls out of the stadium in a game.
What's crazy is that the MLB has been around since 1876. There have been approximately 238,500 total games played in MLB history. Only 21 times out of those 238,500 has a player hit 4 home runs in a single game. And somehow, it has happened 3 times this season.
What's even crazier is that 2 of them have come against the Braves. Imagine the same team getting a perfect game thrown against them twice in the same season. That team would never stopped getting clowned on for the rest of eternity. There have been fewer 4-homer games than perfect games pitched, and the Braves had it happen to them TWICE this year alone. Yikes!
Would it have been nice to see some of this offense against the Mets? Surely. But let's not forget that baseball is all about peaking at the right time. It's all about getting that bat going at the exact right moment so that it can stay scorching hot in October. Maybe the Mets series was just a couple days too early to heat up. Schwarber needed a chance to reset, and now this is the night that sends him into kill mode the rest of the way. Phils are so back.
Play the music!!