C. Notes: Scooter Gennett welcomes Eugenio Suárez to 4-homer club

Scooter Gennett was asleep Saturday night when a buddy called. Gennett didn’t understand why his friend would be calling, so he went back to sleep.

When you have a newborn like Gennett and his wife, Kelsey, sleep is paramount.

But sometime around 10:40 p.m. at his home in Parrish, Fla., the texts started coming in.

“GENO!” the first text read.

At that point, Gennett knew what had happened. His former teammate had joined Gennett and 17 others in one of the game’s most exclusive clubs: hitting four home runs in one game.

“I went to bed with a smile,” Gennett said. “It might have been the best night’s sleep I’ve had in a while.”

Sunday, 12 hours after Suárez’s four-homer game and nearly eight years from when Gennett achieved the feat, it was still hard for Gennett to believe anyone can hit four homers in a game, especially a pair of teammates from a team that lost 94 games in 2017.

“Baseball is so hard and you fail so much that a four-homer game, it’s like, c’mon, there’s no way I can do that,” Gennett said.

Gennett was the 17th player to hit four home runs in one game. J.D. Martinez, then of the Arizona Diamondbacks, did the same nearly three months after Gennett.

“I’d be interested to see how many three-homer games there have been,” Gennett said….