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'Turns out there was a real winner.'
In the U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB), there is another batter who hit '4 home runs in one game' for the first time in eight years. It is the 19th rare record in major league history. It is a true record that is difficult to come out of the perfect game (nine innings of no hit, no four pitches, no run, no run victory), which is the best that a starting pitcher can achieve. Perfect games have been played 24 times so far.
The batter who set this difficult record of 19th 'four home runs in a game' was Euhenio Suarez (33), third baseman of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West.
Suarez started the home game against the Atlanta Braves in the 2025 MLB at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona on the 27th (Korea time) and hit four consecutive home runs in the second, fourth, sixth and ninth innings.
His first homer came after two outs in the bottom of the second inning when his team was losing 0-2. When Suarez met Atlanta starter Grant Holmes, he hit a solo homer to left-center field. Suarez then hit another two-run home run over left-center in the bottom of the fourth inning with one out and a runner on first base. He hit a solo home run against the middle wall after two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning. The opponents were all Holmes.
Suarez, who gained momentum, came out as a leadoff hitter in the bottom of the ninth inning, trailing 6-7, and hit a tie-breaking home run against Atlanta closer Raicel Iglesias to complete the real record of '4 home runs in a game'. This was the first real record in eight years since J.D. Martinez, who was also a member of Arizona in 2017.
In fact, if the trend continued so far and a rare record was born than 'Perfect Game', Arizona deserved to win.
But baseball has the charm of catching people off guard. There's a big twist. In the end, the last one who laughed was not Arizona, but Atlanta, which had been hit with home runs in a row. Arizona failed to finish after Suarez's tiebreaking home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the game eventually went into extra time.
Atlanta immediately scored the winning run in the top of the 10th inning. Arizona pitcher Justin Martinez threw a wild pitch with one out and third base, and third baseman Olsen homered to make it 8-7. Atlanta then hit two batters in a row in the bottom of the 10th inning with one out and third base, ending the game with a comeback victory.
As a result, Atlanta became the third team in major league history and the second team since the 20th century, a team that beat a batter with four home runs in a game.
On the other hand, Suarez will also take on the record that only three times in his 129-year history are the hitters who hit four home runs in a game and lost the game.
MLB.COM, the official website of Major League Baseball, reported on Atlanta's 'Challenge to Turnaround Record' saying `Atlanta went down in history, although Suarez hit four home runs.'
In the modern major leagues, like Atlanta, the Montreal Expos (formerly Washington Nationals) are the team that won with four home runs per game. On July 6, 1986, he allowed four homers to Bob Horner, but ultimately won the game 11-8. At this time, Horner's team and the victim of the milestone were Atlanta.
If you turn the record back more than this, you have to go back to the 19th century. On July 13, 1896, a game between the Chicago Colts and the Philadelphia Phillies, which is slightly ambiguous to call major league history, resulted in the creation of the 'first four-homer hitter in a game'. It was Ed Delahanti from Philadelphia.
Delahanti, one of the best hitters of the 19th century, hit four home runs against Chicago on the day. However, the first record did not lead to victory. Philadelphia eventually lost 8-9. In the end, the starting point of 'four-homer hitters in a game' was in contact with defeat. In that sense, Suarez can be seen as a batter who faithfully follows the long tradition.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
