Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper combined for a rare MLB night as the Philadelphia Phillies thrashed the New York Mets 15-3 on Saturday, producing a feat not seen since 1932. Schwarber launched three home runs in the game, including a pair of massive shots in t
Saturday night didn’t feel like a regular baseball game for the Phillies. It felt like something overdue finally landing—two stars swinging as if the Mets couldn’t find the answers, and a scoreboard that went from damage to demolition in the span of a few innings.
The Philadelphia Phillies finished the New York Mets with a 15-3 win, and the damage came directly from Kyle Schwarber and Bryce Harper. Both delivered displays that placed the franchise into company history dating back to 1932.
Schwarber started the third inning the way the rest of the evening would follow. He led off with a 456-foot home run to the second deck in right field off Mets starter Freddy Peralta (5-6). When the Phillies’ big inning kept rolling. Schwarber doubled down immediately—ending the frame with a 457-foot drive to almost the same spot. this time off Cionel Perez. He didn’t stop there. In the seventh inning. Schwarber added a two-run homer off Tobias Myers. his major league-leading 28th home run of the season.
For Schwarber, it wasn’t just one night’s highlights. It was a statement wrapped in numbers: it was the fifth career three-homer game for him, and he went 4-for-5 with six RBIs and four runs.
Harper’s offense hit a different gear. He got the Phillies going in the first inning with a solo home run, his 16th of the year. He then doubled and singled in the third. In the fifth, Harper delivered a two-run triple into the gap in left-center field.
That sequence—home run, double, single, triple—gave Harper the first career cycle of his major league career. It was also the 11th cycle in Phillies history.
The two-star night became historic in the way only baseball can make historic: not through one moment. but through the overlap of two milestones in the same game. The Phillies’ postgame update via OptaSTATS said the @Phillies became the second team in MLB history to have a player hit for the cycle (Bryce Harper) and a player hit 3 homers (Kyle Schwarber) in the same game. The other instance. it noted. was the Yankees on June 3. 1932. when Tony Lazzeri hit for the cycle and Lou Gehrig hit four homers.
Philadelphia’s record moved to 41-35 on the season. In the NL East Division standings, the Phillies were in second place, sitting above the Washington Nationals and the Miami Marlins and trailing the Atlanta Braves.
With the series set for momentum after Saturday’s statement win, the Phillies now turn toward the series finale against the Mets in Game 3. First pitch is scheduled for 7:20 p.m. ET on June 21.
When the night finally ended, the Mets didn’t just lose a game. They watched Harper and Schwarber rewrite the kinds of evenings you normally only hear about from the distant past.
Philadelphia Phillies New York Mets Kyle Schwarber Bryce Harper 15-3 MLB history three homers cycle Freddy Peralta Cionel Perez Tobias Myers NL East OptaSTATS