Kyle Schwarber is no stranger to monster home runs. Tuesday night’s Game 1 of the NLCS might have been his finest work yet.
With the Phillies holding a 1–0 lead thanks to Bryce Harper’s solo homer in the fourth inning, Schwarber dug in against Yu Darvish in the sixth. He wasted no time waiting for his pitch to hit, ambushing the first throw from Darvish and hammering it to right field for an upper-deck blast. Statcast measured it at 488 feet, with an exit velocity of 120 miles per hour, making it the hardest-hit postseason home run on record (Statcast began measuring exit velocities in 2015).