“Kyle Schwarberhit 16 home runs - including seven leadoff home runs - during the month of June,” Washington’s Nationals noted in their 2021 Season in Review, which was “... the most in any single month in Nationals’ history (2005-pres.), and the second-most hit in the month of June in Major League history behind Sammy Sosa(20 in June 1998).”
That run by Schwarber, the 28-year-old slugger, who’d signed a 1-year/$10M with the Nats after Chicago non-tendered him last winter — following six seasons with the Cubs, who’d drafted him 4th overall in 2014 — was one of the highlights of a disappointing 2021 campaign in D.