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Mark Whicker: With “good vibes only,” Suarez becomes latest to belt four homers in MLB game

“Perhaps you’ve been preoccupied with the ghosting of Shedeur Sanders or the octagon that’s become the Montreal Canadiens’ bench area. Understandable, but Eugenio Suarez did something Saturday night that shouldn’t have been swept underneath our brains, but was.

He became only the 19th hitter in the history of Major League Baseball to hit four home runs in the same game.”

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Mark Whicker: It's early, but Padres’ Tatis, yesterday's footnote, in trophy contention

“Among the trophies Fernando Tatis Jr. was supposed to be cramming into his attic by now was not the one for Comeback of the Year.

Not long ago he was hitting baseballs out of sight, 42 of them in 2021. Then he disappeared, too. It doesn’t take long for today’s sensation to become tomorrow’s footnote. Tatis didn’t play in 2022, missed 21 games the next year and 60 games last year, thanks to a shoulder problem. Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge took over baseball’s marquee.

They are still there, but Tatis is again sending out drives that might knock their letters off, or maybe into a lower row.”

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