Bryson Stott's latest HRs just slotted him alongside 2 hilarious names in Phillies history

Bryson Stott is not known for his power, with the 15 home runs he hit in 2023 still serving as his career high total in that category. Moreover, he recently found himself struggling and suffering through a distinct power outage to begin the 2026 season, failing to leave the yard in his first 25 games.

That changed over the weekend, however, as Stott connected not once but twice during the Phillies’ series with the Miami Marlins. Notably, each of the home runs was also a three-run blast, just the tenth and eleventh such homers that Stott has hit in over 2,000 trips to the plate as a major leaguer.

With his two recent home runs, Bryson Stott joined some interesting company among 21st century Phillies hitters

In doing so, Stott posted a whopping six RBI on just two swings of the bat, which is some pretty good productivity.

According to X user @tgpschmenk, it’s the 13th such time that a Phillies player has pulled off the feat of hitting two straight home runs for the club AND collecting six RBI or more in the process since 2000. 

That’s quite a list to unpack. You’ve got extremely unsurprising names like Stott’s teammates Bryce Harper and Kyle Schwarber, as well as noted Phils sluggers of yesteryear like Pat Burrell and Ryan Howard. Alec Bohm somewhat surprisingly accomplished the feat twice, two years apart. And then there are the outliers.

First, we turn it back to Aaron Altherr, a notable one-season wonder who managed the feat with three-run homers on back-to-back days during a solid 2017 season that made it seem like the Phillies had found a long-term piece of their outfield. Altherr later added a solo shot for good measure on the second day, giving him three home runs and seven RBI in two games, both of which the Phils still managed to lose to the Mariners. Unfortunately, Altherrr would go on to hit just 21 more homers as a major leaguer following that burst, making his presence on such a list seem very out of place.

Even more out of place is noted slugger Robert Person, who certainlyhad himself a day on June 2, 2002. Toeing the rubber at Veterans Stadium against the Expos that Sunday afternoon, Person turned in a performance for the ages. When he came to the plate in the bottom of the first inning with the bases loaded, Person turned on an offering from former teammate Bruce Chen and deposited it in left field, plating himself along with Jeremy Giambi, Travis Lee, and Todd Pratt.

Person struck out against Masato Yoshii in his next at bat in the third, but he poured it on once again in the bottom of the fifth, taking Yoshii deep for three more runs to give himself seven ribbies on the day. Notably, Person was relieved by David Coggin for the sixth inning after having done his actual job well enough on the day and qualifying for the win in a Phillies rout. It’s not often that you see a pitcher hit and then be removed from the game, but Person’s red-hot bat caused it to happen in this one.

The pair of homers were the third and fourth of Person’s career, which is where he ended up as a major leaguer. The game also accounted for seven of his 16 career RBI, and these were the only two hits he produced (in 29 plate appearances) in 2002. He certainly ranks as the most unlikely inclusion on this list. No doubt that future “double threats” like Shohei Ohtani took notice and vowed that they wanted to be just like Robert Person when they grew up.

For Bryson Stott, consider this statistical quirk a fun footnote on his way back to producing the kind of offense the Phillies expect from him. With more consistency at the plate, he’ll no doubt find himself on more and more of these oddball lists that give us an excuse to look back and remember some Phils who don’t exactly cross our minds every day.

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