Kyle Schwarber Reaches 350 Career Homers Against Giants
kyle schwarber reached 350 career home runs with a solo shot in his first at-bat Thursday against the San Francisco Giants at Citizens Bank Park. The Phillies designated hitter became the 106th player in MLB history to get there and the ninth active player to do it.
Schwarber Opens With 350
Schwarber turned the first at-bat into the milestone. The solo home run came after the Phillies had already beaten San Francisco 7-0 in the first game of the series on Wednesday, giving him another quick swing at the same opponent and the same park.
The homer came in a day that began with less imposing numbers on his side. He entered batting.190 with nine home runs, 17 RBI’s and 18 runs in 29 games, but the first pitch of Thursday’s game changed the line that will follow him from this series.
Phillies Return To Citizens Bank Park
That same Wednesday win provided the backdrop. Schwarber drew two walks and scored one run in the Phillies’ 7-0 victory, then came back the next day and cleared the fence in his first chance to hit. The sequence gave Philadelphia two straight games in which he reached base and changed the scoreboard in a different way each time.
He is in his fifth year with the Phillies, a stretch that has lined up with steady October baseball. Philadelphia has reached the MLB playoffs in each of the last four seasons and made the World Series in 2022, so his milestone arrived inside a run of team success rather than in isolation.
Milestone Company For Schwarber
The 350-homer mark remains a narrow club. Schwarber is the 106th player to reach it and the ninth active player on that list, placing him among hitters who have turned power into long-term durability. The home run also matched the kind of raw strike that has defined his power streaks, with one post from the game noting 113.0 MPH and 406 FT.
He has done that before in big moments at Citizens Bank Park. One social post pointed back to a four-homer game last year, and another captured the swing that crossed the plate for the 350th home run of his career with the Phillies down 2-1 against the Giants. For a club built around postseason expectations, the milestone landed in a game that already had a series edge attached to it.
