Thursday evening provided us with a moment that baseball does better than any other sport: taking two things that used to be special but now almost seem mundane, and then slamming them together in an alchemist's fever dream. This particular moment came when Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies, owner of baseball's 21st four-homer game in history and the third this year, faced Atlanta infielder Vidal Bruján, the 61st non-pitching pitcher of 2025, in a showdown to see if there was any actual history...
