CINCINNATI, OH – MAY 06: Scooter Gennett #4 of the Cincinnati Reds watches his fourth home run against the St. Louis Cardinals at Great American Ball Park on June 6, 2017 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Photo by Michael Hickey/Getty Images)

If you haven’t heard, Cincinnati Reds utility man Scooter Gennett, hit four home runs Tuesday night, becoming only the 17th player ever to do so. His performance was one of the best of all-time and also one of the least likely.

Gennett is a fifth-year veteran best known for on-and-off stints at second base for the lowly Brewers. He entered Tuesday with 38 career home runs in 1,754 plate appearances, or one for every 46 plate appearances. The odds that he’d homer four times in five trips to the plate (based on the fact he homers in about two percent of his plate appearances) are roughly 1 in 50,000.

Here are some things more probable than what Gennett accomplished Tuesday:

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