Harper's Cycle, Schwarber's 3 HRs Power Phillies Rout
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- Bryce Harper hit for the cycle — his first in the majors — going 4-for-5 with three RBIs and two runs, the 11th cycle in Phillies history and the first since Weston Wilson on Aug. 15, 2024.
- Harper had been 1-for-his-last-7 before switching to a heavier 35-ounce bat and arriving early for batting practice; he homered in his first at-bat and said, "I was trying to hit homers. Just trying to have some fun."
- Kyle Schwarber went 4-for-5 with three home runs — two in the third inning off consecutive pitchers, traveling 456 and 457 feet — plus six RBIs and four runs scored.
- Schwarber became the 67th player in MLB history to hit two home runs in a single inning and just the fourth Phillie to do so, joining Trea Turner, Von Hayes and Andy Seminick.
- Schwarber's seventh-inning solo shot was his major league-leading 28th homer of the season.
- The Phillies became just the second team in MLB history to have one player hit for the cycle and another hit three-plus homers in the same game, matching Tony Lazzeri and Lou Gehrig's Yankees on June 3, 1932.
Why it matters: Harper snapped a 1-for-7 funk with a deliberate bat change and produced his first career cycle, while Schwarber padded his MLB-leading home run total to 28 — together delivering an offensive night so rare the last comparable game came from the 1932 Murderers' Row Yankees, a 93-year benchmark that frames how singular the Phillies' output was.
