The Phillies beat the Mets 15-3 on Saturday night and broke a baseball record that had been sitting untouched since June 3, 1932.
That was the day Tony Lazzeri hit for the cycle and Lou Gehrig hit three home runs in the same Yankees game. From that afternoon until June 20, 2026, no other team in Major League Baseball history had done it. Ninety-four years. Through the dead-ball years and the live-ball years and the steroid years and everything since.
Now there are two teams on the list, and the second one is the Phillies, and the two guys responsible are Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber.
Harper did the cycle, and he did it in five innings. Four at-bats. That's it. He led off the first with a home run. In the third inning, with the Phillies already piling on, he hustled out a double on a ball that most guys would have stopped at first, then came around to score and got back up later in the same inning for a single. In the fifth, he laced a ball into the gap and went for three. Slid into third. Got it. Right arm pump. Then both arms up.
You don't usually see someone hit for the cycle in five innings. The standard cycle takes a full nine-inning game, often a doubleheader, often a lucky bounce or a misplayed fly. Harper hit his so fast that the Mets were still trying to figure out what kind of game they'd shown up to. It was his first career cycle, after thirteen years in the big leagues and two MVP trophies. The kind of game the Phillies' fan base has spent a long time waiting to see from him.
Schwarber, in the same game, hit three home runs. The first two came in the third inning, back-to-back at-bats, both off the same pitcher, both into deep right-center. The first traveled 456 feet. The second went 457. Almost the same flight path. Almost the same landing spot. Both balls were hit so hard they didn't have time to curve. The Liberty Bell out in center field rang twice in the same half-inning. Then in the seventh, Schwarber came up against Tobias Myers and put a two-run shot just inside the right field foul pole. The bell rang a third time. That made it three for the night and 28 for the season, which leads the major leagues. Schwarber is on pace for sixty home runs. He turned 33 this year. None of this is supposed to be possible.
The Phillies scored fifteen runs. Three came from Schwarber's bat. Four came around because of Harper. They hit something like every available pitch the Mets brought to the mound. The Mets' starter didn't make it out of the third. That whole third inning was a jawn, eight runs across, two Schwarber bombs, Harper running like a guy half his age. The clubhouse afterward was, by all accounts, loud.
Here's the part that puts a number on it. The combination of a cycle and three-plus home runs by one player in a single game has happened twice in Major League Baseball history. Once was Lazzeri and Gehrig in 1932. The other was Harper and Schwarber on Saturday. There aren't a lot of records that connect modern Philadelphia to Depression-era Yankee Stadium. This is one of them.
There's a footnote too. The next day, Sunday, Harper almost did it again. He had a single, a double, and a home run by the seventh and only needed a triple to do back-to-back career cycles. He didn't get it. But the only other player who has come that close in recent baseball history is Trea Turner, who happens to wear the same jersey. The Phillies' lineup right now is doing things you don't see often.
If you want to put either of these guys on a wall, we have Harper plaques in four sizes and Schwarber plaques in four sizes, both featuring licensed Topps and Bowman cards from the 2024, 2025, and 2026 sets. The 4x6 versions ($14) are the gift-friendly option. The 12x15 ($52) is the one that earns its own corner of the fan cave. The 8x10 sits in between with three cards on solid wood under a high-clarity acrylic cover.
The exact card may vary slightly from the one pictured. You'll always get a genuine licensed card of this player.