Diamondbacks’ Suarez becomes 19th player with four-homer game in MLB history

Eugenio Suarez didn’t let up on the Atlanta Braves Saturday night, etching his name in baseball’s record books with a historic performance.

The Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman completed the 19th four-home run performance in history, leaving the yard in each of his four trips to the plate.

Suarez tagged Braves starter Grant Holmes for his first three long balls of the night, going deep in the second, fourth and sixth innings. The right-hander was taken out of the game following Suarez’s third homer, which travelled 443 feet and over the centre field wall.

His record-tying fourth homer came in the ninth against reliever Raisel Iglesias.

Not only did the blast put Suarez in rarified air, but it also erased a one-run Arizona deficit to force extra innings.

Suarez had previously homered three times in a game on two separate occasions in his career. He accomplished the feat on July 30, 2024, with the Diamondbacks and on Sept. 5, 2020, as a member of the Cincinnati Reds.

It is the first four-homer performance since J.D. Martinez did so in September 2017, also while playing with the Diamondbacks.

Suarez is in the midst of an all-or-nothing season at the plate, as the 33-year-old now has 10 homers — giving him the MLB lead — and 19 hits through 27 games with Arizona.

— With files from the Associated Press