Former Red Sox Slugger Makes MLB History With Four

Only 21 players in Major League history have hit four home runs in a single game, and Kyle Schwarber is now one of them.

The former Boston Red Sox slugger had a game for the ages on Thursday night, going 4-for-6 with four homers and nine RBI to pace the Philadelphia Phillies’ 19-4 rout of the Miami Marlins.

Schwarber electrified the 41,293 fans at Citizens Bank Park with his quartet of homers. He went yard in his first at-bat in the bottom of the first, drilling a 450-foot solo shot into the second deck in right field off Cal Quantrill to put the Phillies on the board.

The three-time All-Star flew out in his second at-bat, but greeted reliever Austin Cox with a 383-foot two-run blast to right in the bottom of the fourth.

Schwarber took Cox deep again his next time up, smacking a 378-