The utterly wonderful thing about four-homer games is their bewitching randomness. Barry Bonds never hit four homers in a single game, but Scooter Gennett did. Babe Ruth never had a four-homer game, but Mike Cameron did. Carlos Delgado did; Big Papi didn’t. Joe Adcock, yes. Much more famous home run teammates Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews, no.

“Hard-hittin’” Mark Whiten — yes.

“Pitcher whoa me” Jim Thome — no.

Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani have not pulled off the four-homer miracle, yet.

Saturday, Eugenio Suárez did it.

If you look at the long history of the four-homer game, Suárez is actually one of the most likely candidates. He is a true bopper. He has 286 home runs in his career and, at the moment, leads all of baseball with 10 home runs — that’s in 27 games. All of us love the “He’s on pace to …” game — Suárez is roughly on a 60-homer pace.

That’s assuming he doesn’t have a few more four-homer games.

Here are the 19 players who have hit four-homers in a game, and their career home run totals — suitable for clipping!

What a glorious club that is, right? Mays and Gehrig, Seerey and Horner, Colavito and Hamilton, Lowe and Gennett.

Eugenio Suráez is just the perfect next member. You know, Eugenio is not entirely out of the 500-home run chase. I mean, yes, it’s a longshot — a major longshot when you look at history — but he just keeps on going, right? And by the end of this season, he might very well be in Rafael Palmeiro and David Ortiz territory through their age-33 seasons.

Let’s say he hits another 30 home runs this year. That would get him to 316 — 184 away. That means averaging 30 or so homers per year until he’s 40.

Unlikely? Yes. Impossible? No!

Once you’ve hit four homers in a game, nothing’s impossible.*

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