Blue Jays legend now has elite company

While being in a club of 19 is certainly exclusive, Suarez joins an even more exclusive within-a-club. You see, when Suarez hit his fourth home run on Sunday, he became the the first Venezuelan and 2nd non-American to accomplish. The first? Blue Jays first baseman Carlos Delgado.

The most unheralded slugger of his era, Delgado's power was on full display on September 25, 2003, when he clobbered everything in site to become the 15th player to hit four home runs in a game. Ironically, the 14th player to do this was his former teammate Shawn Green, who by then was a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Other players to have accomplished the feat include another former Blue Jay Mark Whiten (as a member of the Cardinals), and hall of famers Mike Schmidt, Gil Hodges, and Lou Gehrig.

For years, Delgado remained the only person born outside the United States to accomplish the feat, until Suarez joined him on Sunday. He is still the only Blue Jay to hit four home runs in a game. Many other franchise icons - including Joe Carter, Edwin Encarnacion, and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. - have hit three.

Many sportswriters have called hitting four home runs in a game "baseball's greatest single-game accomplishment". While no player in the modern era has hit five home runs in one game, Lipman Pike allegedly did so in a game in 1866.

Delgado and Suarez have a further connection as well. They are the only players to hit four home runs in four plate appearances.

Truly elite baseball.