PHOENIX — Eugenio Suarez accomplished a feat rarer than a perfect game or an immaculate inning with his four-home run game on Saturday at Chase Field.
Barry Bonds never hit four in one game, nor did Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth or Albert Pujols.
There have been a total of 19 four-home run games in major league history, two of which came before 1900. There have been 24 perfect games and 114 immaculate innings.
It had not been done from 1896 until Lou Gehrig in 1932 in a 20-13 shootout against the Philadelphia Athletics. Fellow baseball and American icon Willie Mays did so in 1961, and the next player was Hall of Famer Mike Schmidt in 1976. Only one player hit four homers in a game during the 1980s, Atlanta’s Bob Horner (Arizona State legend) in 1986.
Most games involving a player hitting four home runs are pretty one-sided, with 11 of the 19 decided by seven or more runs. That was not the case with Suarez, who blasted his final roundtripper off Braves closer Raisel Iglesias to tie Atlanta in the ninth inning.
The Diamondbacks ended up losing in 10 innings 8-7, but Saturday was a moment that will live on in baseball history, and is one of the defining moments of Suarez’s career.
FOUR AT-BATSFOUR HOME RUNS
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, EUGENIO SUÁREZ ? pic.twitter.com/uSEW7kHUOB
— MLB (@MLB) April 27, 2025
By the numbers: Eugenio Suarez hits four home runs
19 players ever
The Diamondbacks have accounted for the last two four-home run games, as J.D. Martinez had himself a day at Dodger Stadium in 2017. Martinez did so only three months after Scooter Gennett clobbered four home runs for the Cincinnati Reds, whose third baseman that day was Suarez.
The list of 19 players goes as follows:
– Bobby Lowe, Beaneaters, May 30, 1894 – Ed Delahanty, Phillies, July 13, 1896 – Lou Gehrig, Yankees, June 3, 1932 – Chuck Klein, Phillies, July 10, 1936 – Pat Seerey, White Sox, July 18, 1948 – Gil Hodges, Dodgers, Aug. 31, 1950 – Joe Adcock, Braves, July 31, 1954 – Rocky Colavito, Cleveland, June 10, 1959 – Willie Mays, Giants, April 30, 1961 – Mike Schmidt, Phillies, April 17, 1976 – Bob Horner, Braves, July 6, 1986 – Mark Whiten, Cardinals, Sept. 7, 1993 – Mike Cameron, Mariners, May 2, 2002 – Shawn Green, Dodgers, May 23, 2002 – Carlos Delgado, Blue Jays, Sept. 25, 2003 – Josh Hamilton, Rangers, May 8, 2012 – Scooter Gennett, Reds, June 6, 2017 – J.D. Martinez, Diamondbacks, Sept. 4, 2017 – Eugenio Suárez, Diamondbacks, April 26, 2025
Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo is the first manager to experience this phenomena twice.
“I was really proud of his last at-bat,” Lovullo said. “Everybody’s wanting him to hit that fourth home run. The normal thing to do is to get lengthy, get long and pop up, get jammed. But he put himself into a good count by taking some nasty pitches just off the plate and then probably put his best swing on the high fastball. It’s amazing. It’s magical. It’s what we all dream about as kids.”
Suarez donated his bat to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to @Dbacks third baseman Eugenio Suárez on his four-home run game!
He will be donating his bat from Saturday's historic performance to the Hall of Fame when he finishes using it. pic.twitter.com/FtOHfJxEAU
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum ⚾ (@baseballhall) April 27, 2025
Suarez is one of three Diamondbacks in club history to hit at least three home runs in a game multiple times, having done so last year against the Washington Nationals. He joins Luis Gonzalez and Steve Finley on that list, per MLB researcher Sarah Langs.
He is the first player to ever hit four home runs in a game at Chase Field.
10 home runs to climb the leaderboards
Suarez won the first NL Player of the Week award of the season, hitting five home runs in the first five games of the season. His first five hits were homers.
Since then, the bat had cooled off, although Suarez in the last week had shown some signs of heating back up, although nothing close to the extent of Saturday’s performance.
Suarez entered Saturday with six home runs, and he went to bed with a major league high of 10.
His OPS climbed from a substandard .690 to a really good .870, as his slugging percentage skyrocketed from .411 to .564.
He is the first major leaguer in history (minimum 100 plate appearances) to raise his slugging percentage by 150 points in one day, per OptaSTATS.
The next largest jump came from Mike Cameron’s four-homer game in 2002, when his slug rose from .473 to .615.
“Today was a special. Yesterday is in the past. Like I say, we got to turn the page, come here with a new energy,” Suarez said. “I never changed my thoughts, I’m always the guy who believes in what can happen in the game.”
"I just want to glorify God with this game today."
D-backs' Eugenio Suarez said he has "mixed feelings" after absorbing another extra-inning loss despite hitting four home runs: pic.twitter.com/c3Hgdxsb0E
— Arizona Sports (@AZSports) April 27, 2025
34 dingers since last summer
Last season, Suarez hit six home runs through July 6. He hit 24 for the rest of the season.
From July 7, 2024, through Saturday, Suarez has led Major League Baseball with 34 home runs, one ahead of reigning American League MVP Aaron Judge.
Mixed feelings
While it is rare to hit four home runs in a game, it is much less common to lose that game. The Diamondbacks are one of three teams to lose a game in which one of their players left the yard four times. The last club to do so was Horner’s Braves in 1986 against the Montreal Expos.
1st Venezuelan to hit a quartet
Suarez is the first major leaguer from Venezuela to hit four home runs in a single game, a country with a rich baseball culture and history. He is also the only Venezuelan-born player to hit three home runs in a game three times.
Miguel Cabrera, Victor Martinez and Carlos Gonzalez have done it twice, each.
The only other Latin American-born player to hit four in one game was Carlos Delgado for the 2002 Blue Jays.
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