Schwarbombs galore: Kyle Schwarber makes Phillies, MLB history with 4 homers, 9 RBIs

PHILADELPHIA — He stood there for two seconds, admiring his history-making swing, and no one inside Citizens Bank Park was surprised by it. That is what Kyle Schwarber does. He smashed four home runs in Thursday night’s 19-4 win, becoming the 21st player in Major League Baseball history to accomplish the feat.

4 HR TONIGHT.
49 HR IN 2025.

KYLE SCHWARBER IS UNREAL 🤯 pic.twitter.com/CbBnWBqCVS

— MLB (@MLB) August 29, 2025

And, now, only one man in 143 years of Philadelphia Phillies baseball has hit more homers in a single season than Schwarber’s current 49. That was Ryan Howard’s 58 in 2006 — a number that Schwarber will hunt over the final 28 games.

His nine RBIs during Thursday’s rout of the Atlanta Braves set a franchise record. Schwarber hit a solo homer in the first inning, a two-run homer in the fourth inning, a three-run homer in the sixth inning, then capped it with another three-run homer in the seventh inning.

Schwarber was the fourth Phillie to hit four homers in a game. Mike Schmidt did it in 1976, Chuck Klein in 1936 and Ed Delahanty in 1896.

It is the second time this season that the Braves have given up four homers to a single player, with Eugenio Suárez also swatting four homers against Atlanta in late April. Suárez, Schwarber and the A’s Nick Kurtz have all posted four-homer games this season, the first time in MLB history the feat has happened three times.

For a Phillies team reeling after a three-game sweep by the New York Mets, Schwarber’s swings were cathartic. He was not alone. The Phillies tied a franchise record by swatting seven homers.

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