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Al Arabiya
3 days ago
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- Al Arabiya
Schwarber's 1,000th hit is 319th homer, topping mcgwire for most to the mark
Kyle Schwarber topped Mark McGwire for most home runs among players' first 1000 hits, hitting long ball No. 319. 'I don't know if that's a good thing or not,' the Philadelphia Phillies slugger said. Ten days after lifting the National League to victory in the first All-Star Game swing-off, Schwarber keeps going deep. He hit a pair of two-run homers in a 12-5 victory over the New York Yankees on Friday night. The first drive—his milestone hit—started the comeback from a 2-0 deficit. He even got the ball back after it was grabbed by a Phillies fan attending with his friends in Yankee Stadium's right-center field seats. 'I saw it on the video and then I see the dude tugging. I'm like: 'Oh, they all got Philly stuff on.' That was cool,' Schwarber said. He met the trio after the game, gave an autographed ball to each, and exchanged hugs. When he went to get a third ball to autograph, one of the three said he just wanted the potential free agent to re-sign with the Phillies. 'You show up to the field every single day trying to get a win at the end of the day, and I think our fans kind of latch on to that, right?' Schwarber said. 'It's been fantastic these last 3 1/2 years—four years now—the support that we get from our fans, and it means a lot to me that you know that they attach theirselves on our team.' Schwarber tied it at 2 in the fifth against Will Warren when he hit a 413-foot drive on a first-pitch fastball. After J.T. Realmuto's three-run homer off Luke Weaver built a 6-3 lead in a four-run seventh, and the Yankees closed within a run in the bottom half, Schwarber sent an Ian Hamilton fastball 380 feet into the right-field seats. Schwarber reached 1000 hits with eight more homers than McGwire. Schwarber has 36 homers this year, three shy of major league leader Cal Raleigh, and six homers in seven games since he was voted All-Star MVP. He has 33 multi-homer games. 'I don't know where we'd be without him,' Phillies manager Rob Thomson said. 'Comes up with big hit after big hit after big hit. It's just—it's amazing.' Schwarber is 32 and eligible for free agency this fall after completing a 79 million four-year contract. He homered on all three of his swings in the All-Star Game tiebreaker, and when the second half began, Phillies managing partner John Middleton proclaimed: 'We love him. We want to keep him.' 'He's been an incredible force all season long,' Realmuto said. 'What he's meant to his team, his offense, it's hard to put in words.' A World Series champion for the 2016 Chicago Cubs, Schwarber has reached 35 homers in all four seasons with the Phillies. He's batting .255 with 82 RBIs and a .960 OPS. He also has almost as many home runs as singles (46). Schwarber had not been aware he topped McGwire for most homers among 1000 hits. 'I had no clue. I didn't even know it was my 1000th to be honest with you,' he said.
Yahoo
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Cubs' Kyle Tucker robbed Yankees' Cody Bellinger of a 4-homer game with amazing catch
They couldn't have known it at the time. Because when Cody Bellinger ripped a rocket line drive deep to right field in the seventh inning at Yankee Stadium, he had only hit two home runs to that point. So when Cubs superstar Kyle Tucker leaped at the wall to rob a homer, it denied an incredible night but didn't yet appear to be historic. Advertisement Only later, when Bellinger actually left the yard for his third HR of the night, did it become clear exactly what Tucker had done. He had prevented a fourth homer in the same game for Bellinger. Only 19 players have ever done that. MORE: Cal Raleigh puts up stats never before seen in MLB history There is an obvious caveat here: There's no telling how the pursuit of a fourth homer might've changed Bellinger's approach in his next at bat. Would Chicago have pitched him differently? Would he have felt a different amount of pressure that would've caused a different kind of swing? Advertisement It's impossible go back and replay those moments. But Tucker's catch denied even the chance at that history. Bellinger probably didn't feel too bad about it, though. He went to bed having homered three times in the same game against his former team, and his swing is clearly locked in. He'll take that every night even with the robbery thrown in. MORE MLB NEWS:
