Harper hits 1st career cycle, Schwarber records 3-HR game in win vs. Mets

The Philadelphia Phillies stars put on a show for the history books Saturday against the New York Mets.

First baseman Bryce Harper recorded the first cycle of his illustrious 15-year career after collecting a 2-run triple during the fifth inning of the Phillies' 15-3 win. The eight-time All-Star became the 10th player in Phillies history to accomplish the feat. He singled and doubled in the third after hitting a homer in the first.

Harper is also just the seventh player in the expansion era (1961) to collect a cycle within the first five innings of a game, according to Sarah Langs of MLB.com.

"It's up there," Harper said of where the cycle ranks among his career accomplishments, according to MLB.com's Paul Casella. "Obviously, doing that at the big-league level is really cool."

Meanwhile, designated hitter Kyle Schwarber recorded his fifth career three-homer game, going deep for the final time in the seventh inning to cap a monster performance.

Schwarber hit his first two homers in the third.

"Yeah, that was cool," Schwarber said of the two-homer inning, according to Casella. "First time I've done that in my career."

The Phillies are only the second team in MLB history to have two players accomplish the two feats concurrently. The only other time it happened was by the New York Yankees in June 1932 (Tony Lazzeri cycle, Lou Gehrig four homers), according to OptaSTATS.

Harper is the second MLB star to hit for the cycle this week, as Chicago Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong did it Tuesday.