Kyle Schwarber just keeps on hitting home runs.
It’s what the Philadelphia Phillies’ slugger does, and very few have ever had a season quite like the one Schwarber is having.
On Monday night, Schwarber launched his 53rd homer of the season, but there was something extra special about this one.
Schwarber hit it off of left-handed pitcher Anthony Banda. It was Schwarber’s 22nd home run of the season off a lefty pitcher.
That ties the major league record. Two other hitters in MLB history have hit 22 home runs as a left-handed batter off a left-handed pitcher: 1949 Stan Musial and 2021 Matt Olson.
Schwarber now has a couple of weeks to break it, too.
There have been plenty of prodigious left-handed power seasons, including from Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth, but even they never did this.
Schwarber has put up four consecutive monster seasons for the Phillies, and this is definitely the greatest one yet.
It’s putting pressure on the Philadelphia front office, because Schwarber is a free agent after the season.
But before that time arrives, there’s a chance to make noise in the postseason. And if Schwarber keeps hitting bombs like this, good things will happen for the Phillies.
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