WATCH: Phillies fan caves under pressure, costs Kyle Schwarber his 33rd home run of the season

Kyle Schwarber launched a ball to right field last night at Citizens Bank Park that hit the top of the fence and bounced back onto the field, which was ultimately ruled a ground-rule double instead of his league-leading 33rd home run because the ball didn’t clear the wall cleanly.

Kyle Schwarber (almost) RINGS IT

Kyle Schwarber hit this JUST short of his league-leading 33rd homer 😱

The hit was called a ground-rule double after bouncing off the top of the fence 😯 pic.twitter.com/d4NWC17nTd

— ESPN (@espn) July 17, 2026

Upon further review, the reason it’s a ground-rule double instead of a homer has nothing to do with the umpires or the replay review or the trajectory of the ball and everything to do with the fan sitting in the front row of the right-field seats wearing a Phillies bucket hat with a glove on his hand who had the ball within arm’s reach on top of the wall and couldn’t bring it into the stands to complete the catch that would have made it a home run regardless of what the fence did.

This Phillies fan should have caught it, no excuses

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I mean come on. You’re dressed and geared up for the occasion. Time to make a play, brother. You knew you were in home run territory, obviously, we can’t have you folding in the moment like that, especially on national television.

That ball needs to be in the glove. No other way around it.

Bucket hat guy has to catch that ball and pull it into the seating area. It’s a home run automatically whether it cleared the fence cleanly or bounced off the top on the way over.

Kyle Schwarber should be standing on 33 homers leading the majors by three instead of sitting on 32 with a ground-rule double on his stat line because our guy wearing a glove at a baseball game, a glove he brought from home specifically for the purpose of catching baseballs, couldn’t execute the one play that the entire season asked him to make.

Smoke or no smoke, gotta be ready

Scenes in Philadelphia as the wildfire smoke rolls in during the Mets-Phillies game 😮 pic.twitter.com/ahil4fh2ST

— ESPN (@espn) July 16, 2026

Miss me with the smoke talk. We did this a few years back and Ben Davis made it abundantly clear that the smoke is for pussies. It’s all mental. I don’t want to give Mr. Bucket Hat any excuses. Ben Davis was out there throwing BP to his kid, went for a jog, AND left his doors wide open back in 2023 when smoke rolled through the city.

What’s bucket hat’s excuse now?

That’s what I thought.

Ben Davis wasn’t finished, btw.

The ‘pussification’ of America was just too much for Ben Davis to ignore. After someone replied to him explaining that there is literal smoke everywhere with the Air Quality Index in code red hazardous. Crawmatt on Twitter stepped on the hornets nest.

He responded to let Crawmatt know that he can stay inside and “hold the fort down” while he’ll be maintaining his farm and land and doing whatever else the Good Lord allows him to do. 

Anyways, the Phillies lost last night 4-1 to the New York Mets. Not the best start to the second half of the season but what can ya do.

The good news is that Aaron Nola pitched pretty well. He went six strong, allowing six hits and three earned runs. He walked four and struck out six. We’ll take it. Trea Turner hit a solo homer to give the Phillies their only run of the night. 

With the loss, the Phillies lost a half game in the standings and are now 2.5 behind the Atlanta Braves in the NL East. 

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