This past Saturday night, Eugenio Suárez of the Arizona Diamondbacks hit four home runs in a game against the Atlanta Braves. Suárez is just the 19th player in major league history to hit four homers in a game, and he is the third player whose team lost the game in which he achieved the quadfecta.

Just how rare is Suárez’s accomplishment? Henry Aaron never hammered four home runs in one game. Babe Ruth never swatted four in a game. In the history of baseball there have been 24 perfect games, 22 of which occurred in baseball’s modern era beginning in 1900; that includes Don Larsen‘s gem in the 1956 World Series for the New York Yankees. So, despite the increase in offensive numbers through the years, it still has been easier to pitch a perfect game than to hit four homers in a game.

If you narrow the list of players with four-homer games down to those in the modern era, then there are only 17. Bobby Lowe of the Boston Beaneaters hit his four homers in a game on May 30, 1894 and Big Ed Delahanty of the Philadelphia Phillies hit his on July 13, 1896. Limiting credit for a four-homer game to those who did it in a nine-inning game trims the list down to 14. Chuck Klein of the Phillies (1936), Pat Seerey of the Chicago White Sox (1948) and Mike Schmidt of the Phillies (1976) all needed extra innings to hit their fourth home run.

Looking over the entire list of 19 players with four-homer games I noticed some other interesting facts. Two franchises have three players with four-homer games: the Braves with Lowe (Boston Beaneaters), Joe Adcock (Milwaukee), and Bob Horner (Atlanta) and the Phillies with Delahanty, Klein, and Schmidt.

Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants (1961) is the only player with over 500 career home runs to hit four home runs in one game, although Lou Gehrig of the Yankees came close with 493.

Five members of the Baseball Hall of Fame hit four home runs in one game: Delahanty, Gehrig, Klein, Mays, and Schmidt.

Suárez joins Delahanty and Horner as the only three players to hit four home runs in a game in which their team lost. Suárez hit his first three home runs against the starting pitcher, Grant Holmes, and his final homer came off closer, Raisel Iglesias. In July of 1986 against the Montreal Expos, Horner also hit his first three home runs off starting pitcher, Andy McGaffigan, and hit his final homer off closer, Jeff Reardon.

By winning the game in which Suárez hit his four homers, the Braves became the first team to both lose a game in which one of their players hit four home runs and win a game when a player on the opposing team hit four homers.

Suárez’s fourth home run came in the bottom of the ninth and sent the game into extra innings. The Braves scored their automatic runner in the top of the 10th to go up 8-7. With two outs in the bottom of the inning, pinch-hitter Randal Grichuk drove in the Diamondbacks’ automatic runner with an infield single to tie the score 8-8, despite great defensive plays by both Austin Riley at third base and Matt Olson at first.

But not so fast. The Braves successfully challenged the call on the field, and the game abruptly ended with the Braves as the victors.

Who knows? Had Grichuk reached safely, Suárez may have had a chance to become the first player ever to hit five home runs in one game.