PHILADELPHIA -- What's the best way to one-up hitting a 456-foot home run?
Hit a 457-foot home run in the same inning.
Well, that's exactly what Kyle Schwarber did in the third inning of Saturday night's 15-3 win against the Mets at Citizens Bank Park.
Perhaps even more impressive, Schwarber topped himself again in the seventh inning with his third homer of the night. It was the fifth career three-homer game for Schwarber, who hit four homers in a game last season. Schwarber's third homer of the night, hit off Tobias Myers for No. 28 on the year, hugged the right-field foul pole and traveled 359 feet.
Schwarber led off the inning with a majestic second-deck blast off Mets starter Freddy Peralta for his MLB-leading 26th home run of the season. Later in that same frame, Schwarber welcomed left-hander Cionel Pérez to the game by smashing a nearly identical home run -- albeit 1 foot farther and with two men on base.
Put his first two homers of the night together, and that's: one inning, two homers, four RBIs -- and 913 feet of distance covered.
Schwarber became just the fourth player in franchise history to hit two home runs in a single inning, joining Trea Turner (Aug. 19, 2023), Von Hayes (June 11, 1985) and Andy Seminick (June 2, 1949).
Schwarber is the second big leaguer to accomplish the feat this season. Houston's Yordan Alvarez -- whose 24 homers are second-most behind Schwarber -- hit two in the first inning on June 12.
Schwarber, though, left no doubt about either of his first two home runs. The 456-footer came off his bat at 109.1 mph. The 457-footer had an exit velocity of 111.1 mph.
Not surprisingly, Schwarber is the only player since Statcast began tracking in 2015 to hit multiple 450-foot homers in the same inning. But only eight other players have hit multiple 450-foot home runs in the same game, let alone the same frame -- and three of those eight came at Coors Field.
And how about this? Only one player (Cam Smith) has multiple 456-foot home runs this entire season. Schwarber did it in less than an hour.
Since the start of last season, Schwarber has eight home runs of at least 450 feet. No other player has more than four such homers during that span.
With Bryce Harper completing his first career cycle, the Phillies on Saturday night became the second team in MLB history to have a three-homer performance and a cycle in the same game. The first was the 1932 Yankees, with Tony Lazzeri hitting for the cycle and Lou Gehrig delivering four home runs on June 3, 1932, against the Athletics in Philadelphia.