Eugenio Suárez had himself an evening. On Saturday at Chase Area in opposition to the Braves, the Diamondbacks third baseman homered 4 occasions, turning into the nineteenth participant in main league historical past to take action in a single recreation. The fourth of these photographs tied the rating within the backside of the ninth, however sadly for Suárez and Arizona, his unbelievable efficiency wasn’t sufficient. The D-backs misplaced in 10 innings, 8-7.
The 33-year-old Suárez is the primary participant to homer 4 occasions in a recreation since one other Diamondback, J.D. Martinez, did so in opposition to the Dodgers on September 4, 2017. Suárez is simply the third participant ever to homer 4 occasions in a dropping trigger — it occurred simply as soon as over a 128-year stretch — and solely the second to make simply 4 plate appearances in his four-homer recreation.
Gamers with 4 House Runs in a Sport
| Participant | Workforce | Opp | Date | Outcome | PA | H | HR | RBI | TB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bobby Lowe | BSN | CIN | 5/30/1896 | W, 20-11 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 17 | |
| Ed Delahanty | PHI | CHC | 7/13/1896 | L, 9-8 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 17 | |
| Lou Gehrig | NYY | @ | PHA | 6/3/1932 | W, 20-13 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| Chuck Klein | PHI | @ | PIT | 7/10/1936 | W, 9-6 (10) | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| Pat Seerey | CHW | @ | PHA | 7/18/1948 (1st) | W, 12-11 (11) | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 16 |
| Gil Hodges | BRO | BSN | 8/31/1950 | W, 19-3 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 17 | |
| Joe Adcock | MLN | @ | BRO | 7/31/1954 | W, 15-7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
| Rocky Colavito | CLE | @ | BAL | 6/10/1959 | W, 11-8 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| Willie Mays | SFG | @ | MLN | 4/30/1961 | W, 14-4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 16 |
| Mike Schmidt | PHI | @ | CHC | 4/17/1976 | W, 18-16 (10) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 17 |
| Bob Horner | ATL | MON | 7/6/1986 | L, 8-11 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | |
| Mark Whiten | STL | @ | CIN | 9/7/1993 (2nd) | W, 15-2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 16 |
| Mike Cameron | SEA | @ | CHW | 5/2/2002 | W, 15-4 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Shawn Inexperienced | LAD | @ | MIL | 5/23/2002 | W, 16-3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 19 |
| Carlos Delgado | TOR | TBD | 9/25/2003 | W, 10-8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 | |
| Josh Hamilton | TEX | @ | BAL | 5/8/2012 | W, 10-3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 18 |
| Scooter Gennett | CIN | STL | 6/6/2017 | W, 13-1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 17 | |
| J.D. Martinez | ARI | @ | LAD | 9/4/2017 | W, 13-0 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 16 |
| Eugenio Suárez | ARI | ATL | 4/26/2025 | L, 7-8 (10) | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
SOURCE: Baseball-Reference
Yellow = homered 4 occasions in a loss
Batting sixth, Suárez bought his first crack in opposition to starter Grant Holmes with two outs within the second inning, crushing a low-middle four-seamer to placing the Diamondbacks on the board after they’d fallen behind 2-0. Within the fourth, with the Diamondbacks having simply taken a 3-2 lead following Gabriel Moreno’s two-run single, Suárez went yard in opposition to Holmes once more, this time in opposition to a four-seamer on the high of the zone. He bought yet another likelihood on the starter with two outs within the sixth; Holmes hung a slider and Suárez completely obliterated it for a 443-foot homer, his longest of the evening, giving the Diamondbacks a 6-2 lead. With that, he additionally tied his earlier private greatest, having homered thrice in a recreation twice earlier than, first on September 5, 2020 in opposition to the Pirates whereas enjoying for the Reds, after which final July 30 with Arizona in opposition to the Nationals.
Alas, the D-backs bullpen couldn’t maintain that beneficiant lead, as Ryan Thompson served up a two-run homer to Eli White within the seventh and Jalen Beeks allowed three runs within the eighth. The Diamondbacks trailed 7-6 heading into the ninth when Suárez, going through Raisel Iglesias, battled to a full rely after which smacked a excessive fastball on the outer third over the left discipline wall, tying the sport.
Although Alek Thomas adopted with a single, Arizona couldn’t break the tie. The Braves scored the go-ahead run on Justin Martinez’s wild pitch within the tenth, whereas Atlanta lefty Dylan Lee retired the aspect to be able to ship the Diamondbacks to defeat, their fourth loss in a row.
“Clearly there’s some blended emotions proper now as a result of we didn’t win the sport,” Suárez stated afterward. “However that is baseball. That’s why this recreation is so particular. … It’s a present. I don’t take it with no consideration.”
The slugger recalled watching the four-homer recreation of his Reds teammate, Gennett, in June 2017. “I believe that in some unspecified time in the future [tonight] that got here into my thoughts that I used to be there then and that was superior to see Scooter hit 4 homers for us,” he stated. “I at all times thought that has to really feel actually good to hit 4 homers in a recreation and in the present day the dream got here true.”
With Suárez and Martinez, Torey Lovullo grew to become the primary supervisor ever to preside over a number of four-home video games. “I used to be left feeling the identical means [regarding Martinez’s four-homer game] that I really feel proper now,” he stated. “It’s superior. You don’t see it fairly often, and also you’ve bought to understand it. You’ve bought to actually embrace this second that you just’re watching one thing particular.”
The house runs gave Suárez the main league lead with 10, and ended a relatively dry spell. After homering 4 occasions throughout the first three video games of Arizona’s four-game sequence with the Cubs to open the season, after which once more within the fifth recreation of the yr, on April 1 in opposition to the Yankees, he fell right into a dreadful hunch. From April 2–24, he went simply 10-for-72 with 4 doubles, one homer, and 9 walks. Not too long ago, nonetheless, he had began to indicate indicators of life. Coming into Saturday, he had collected hits in three straight video games for the primary time since that Cubs sequence, besides, he was hitting simply .167/.279/.411 (90 wRC+). Together with Sunday’s efficiency (1-for-3 with a stroll in a 6-4 win), he’s now as much as .206/.313/.557 (135 wRC+).
For as dangerous as Suárez’s batting common and on-base proportion had been, he was hitting the ball laborious even throughout that drought, with a 91.9-mph common exit velocity and a 52.2% hard-hit price — however he additionally struck out 31.3% of the time throughout that stretch. His general Statcast numbers, bookended by these two dwelling run binges, are eye-opening. Aided by a some changes to his setup and stance, currently he’s been hitting the ball about as laborious as he ever has:
Eugenio Suárez Statcast Profile
| Season | Workforce | BBE | EV | LA | Brl% | HH% | AVG | xBA | SLG | xSLG | wOBA | xwOBA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | SEA | 352 | 89.8 | 19.9 | 14.8% | 43.5% | .236 | .220 | .459 | .454 | .344 | .339 |
| 2023 | SEA | 395 | 90.3 | 18.9 | 12.7% | 43.0% | .232 | .223 | .391 | .419 | .313 | .324 |
| 2024 | ARI | 406 | 89.2 | 19.3 | 11.3% | 42.4% | .256 | .247 | .469 | .447 | .337 | .330 |
| 2025 | ARI | 66 | 93.8 | 23.8 | 19.7% | 57.6% | .206 | .226 | .557 | .567 | .372 | .374 |
Suárez’s common exit velocity and barrel price each rank within the 93rd percentile, up from the 51st and 78th percentiles final yr, respectively. His hard-hit price ranks within the ninety fifth percentile, up from the 63rd final yr. For as early as it’s within the season, we will begin taking not less than a few of these numbers significantly. In accordance to Baseball Prospectus’ Russell Carlton, exit velocity stabilizes on the 40 batted-ball-event mark and barrel price on the 50 BBE mark (hard-hit price not till 80 BBE), so what Suárez is doing not only a fluke. The truth is, his 4.6-mph leap in exit velocity is the sixth largest within the majors:
Largest Positive aspects in Exit Velocity Since 2024
Minimal 300 plate appearances in 2024, 75 in ‘25.
In the meantime, Suárez’s 15.2-percentage level enhance in hard-hit price ranks fifth, his 8.4-point enhance in barrel price eighth.
What’s occurred to Suárez isn’t so simple as a single stance change. As I famous on this area final September, he turned a gradual begin round in midseason as soon as he began utilizing a Trajekt Arc hitting machine, which tasks video of a pitcher’s supply at recreation pace and marries it up with an correct approximation of his choices, together with the discharge level and tempo. Earlier than each dwelling recreation, Suárez cycles by means of every pitcher’s repertoire. After hitting .196/.279/.312 (66 wRC+) with simply six homers by means of the top of June, he batted .312/.357/.617 (162 wRC+) from July 1 onward, rating eighth within the majors in SLG and tenth in wRC+ throughout that span.
Because of the latest launch of Statcast’s batting stance information, we now have some further quantitative insights so as to add concerning Suárez’s turnaround. A easy comparability of this yr’s averages to these from final season exhibits that Suárez has moved nearer to each the pitcher and the plate whereas opening his stance up significantly and intercepting the ball even additional in entrance of the plate than earlier than. (Apart from stance angle, all batting stance information are measured in inches.)
Eugenio Suárez Stance Modifications
| Season | vs. Entrance of Plate | vs. Middle of Mass | Depth in Field | Distance off Plate | Distance Between Ft | Stance Angle |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 4.8 | 31.3 | 26.5 | 26.3 | 28.2 | 4° OPEN |
| 2024 | 8.9 | 32.8 | 24.0 | 24.8 | 26.9 | 12° OPEN |
| 2025 | 16.6 | 35.7 | 19.1 | 22.9 | 26.1 | 19° OPEN |
SOURCE: Baseball Savant
Whereas that’s attention-grabbing sufficient, the month-to-month information for 2024 (probably the most granular chronological breakdown obtainable through the interface) present that these modifications had been gradual:
Eugenio Suárez Stance Modifications by Month
| Season | Cut up | vs. Entrance of Plate | vs. Middle of Mass | Depth in Field | Distance off Plate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | March/April | 2.8 | 30.4 | 27.6 | 25.1 |
| 2024 | Could | 4.4 | 32.3 | 27.8 | 25.3 |
| 2024 | June | 7.1 | 33.5 | 26.4 | 25.3 |
| 2024 | July | 9.0 | 32.8 | 23.8 | 25.6 |
| 2024 | August | 12.8 | 33.8 | 21.0 | 24.3 |
| 2024 | September/October | 15.1 | 33.8 | 18.7 | 23.6 |
| 2025 | March/April | 16.6 | 35.7 | 19.1 | 22.9 |
SOURCE: Baseball Savant
Sadly, the month-to-month splits don’t embody the space between his ft or the stance angle, however right here’s a comparability juxtaposing final March/April and July, after which final September and this March/April:
There’s a lot much less change within the latter comparability. By September, Suárez had already opened his stance to the 19-degree angle he’s at present utilizing. As for some motion photographs, right here’s a comparability between dwelling runs he hit at Chase Area, beginning together with his first one as a Diamondback on March 30, 2024, with a stance that’s barely open:
Right here’s one from September 1, 2024, together with his stance rather more open:
And right here’s one from March 29 of this yr, once more with the extra open stance:
Listed below are the stills from the start of every video:
As for his bat monitoring information, Suárez is attending to his quick swing extra typically than he did even within the second half of final season. His swing has gotten longer, and whereas his squared-up and blast charges aren’t pretty much as good as they had been within the second half of 2024, they’re significantly better than they had been within the first half.
Eugenio Suárez Bat Monitoring
| Cut up | Avg Bat Velocity | Quick% | Squared-Up Swing% | Blast Swing% | Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 By way of June 30 | 72.1 mph | 20.3% | 19.5% | 7.7% | 7.7 ft |
| 2024 July 1 Onward | 72.3 mph | 22.5% | 24.7% | 13.5% | 7.8 ft |
| 2025 | 72.8 mph | 28.9% | 25.9% | 12.2% | 7.9 ft |
Whereas Suárez is chasing pitches exterior the zone extra typically than he did final yr (28.9%, up from 26.8%) and swinging and lacking extra (13.3%, up from 12.8%), his 27.7% strikeout price is nearly the identical, over 4 factors under his 2023 mark, when he struck out a whopping 214 occasions. It’s been a formidable evolution.
One large evening doesn’t show that Suárez is fully again to his scorching 2024 second-half kind. Even so, Saturday’s breakout helps for instance that regardless of his gradual begin, the modifications he instituted final yr are working. If he continues to hit the ball this difficult, he’ll stay a drive in the course of the Diamondbacks lineup.