Kyle Schwarber mashes home run in fifth straight game, leads the Majors with 17, and is on pace for 65

Kyle Schwarber sent a first-inning shot just over the right-field wall at Fenway Park on Tuesday night to go deep for the fifth consecutive game.

That ties the Phillies’ franchise record. He’s the seventh player in team history to do it and the first since Trea Turner in 2023.

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The others on the list are Dick Allen, Mike Schmidt, Bobby Abreu, Chase Utley, Rhys Hoskins, and Odubel Herrera. When the names you’re sharing a record with include Schmidt, Utley, and Allen, you’re in the right company.

Kyle Schwarber HR in 5th Straight Game!

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Kyle Schwarber Leads Major League Baseball

Schwarber’s 17th homer of the season puts him alone atop the MLB home run leaderboard. He entered the night tied with Aaron Judge. Now he’s got it to himself. Schwarber is leading Aaron Judge in home runs in mid-May. That sentence would have been laughable coming out of April when he was striking out eight straight times in Miami. Now it’s reality.

The Pace Is Absurd

Seventeen homers through 42 games. That puts Kyle Schwarber on pace for 65 this season. The Phillies’ franchise record is 58, set by Ryan Howard in 2006. Schwarber chased that number last year and finished with a career-best 56. The pace he’s on right now would shatter it by seven homers. Obviously the pace is going to fluctuate across a full season. There will be cold stretches. There always are with Schwarber. But the power has been so consistent and so violent over the last two weeks that the Howard record feels more realistic this year than it did at any point last season.

The Mattingly Connection

The MLB record for consecutive games with a home run is eight, shared by Ken Griffey Jr. with the Mariners in 1993, Dale Long with the Pirates in 1956, and Don Mattingly with the Yankees in 1987. The Phillies’ interim manager holds a share of the all-time record that his own player is now chasing.

Mattingly homered in five straight before the All-Star Game that year, started for the American League in the Midsummer Classic, then came out of the break and homered in three more. Mattingly said he wasn’t a pure power hitter. He just got hot. Schwarber is a pure power hitter who is also scorching hot. That’s a different animal entirely.

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Wednesday Night Is the Record

Kyle Schwarber gets a chance to set the franchise record with a homer in six straight games on Wednesday at Fenway against Sonny Gray. The career numbers against Gray aren’t great at 4-for-24 with a .167 average, but one of those four hits was a home run last May 14th. Schwarber in this kind of zone against anyone is dangerous. Career splits stop mattering when a hitter is locked in like this.

Kyle Schwarber said after the game that he’s focused on only one number right now. The one in the win column. The Phillies are 11-3 under Mattingly and 20-22 overall. That’s the closest they’ve been to .500 since they were 8-10 on April 15th. The team is climbing and Schwarber leading the league in homers while they do it is exactly the kind of production that fuels a turnaround.

Six straight Wednesday night. Let’s see it.

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