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Eric Battersby of Burlington went 4-4 with four homers, a walk and 6 RBIs in a league playoff game. Jets second baseman Curtis B. Roberts went 4-4 with 4 home runs and 6 RBIs in a 7-inning game, the first of a doubleheader. Spudders manager Daniel L. Ozark went 4-4 with 4 home runs and 6 RBIs. Ozark never played in the major leagues, but managed the Philadelphia Phillies to three NL East division titles in the 1970s.
Right-handed hitting shortstop only hit 67 career home runs in 16 seasons in Cuba, all during the aluminum-bat era. Rockets first baseman Joe Bauman went 5-6 with four home runs, a double and 9 RBIs. He went on to set a professional baseball record with 72 home runs in 1954, not broken until Barry Bonds hit 73 in 2001. Lowe was not a slugger by any means, hitting just 71 homers in 18 seasons throughout his Major League career.
Four Home Runs in a Single Game
MLB ConfidentialMLB players weigh in on baseball's best player, PEDs and what they really think about A-Rod's return. The Age Of Mike TroutThe BBTN 100 counts down the top 25 players in baseball for 2015. There have been a number of three-homer games along the way, but nobody has been able to get over the hump for that fourth dinger. What’s crazy about the two that followed was that it appeared as though he hit them off the end of the bat, yet he still muscled them out, which gave him 40 dingers on the year. The final homer, though, was an absolute blast to center field, and Delgado’s bat flip tells us he knew that thing was a moonshot from the second he made contact. Hamilton is now hitting .406 with 14 home runs and 36 RBI in 30 games.
Current BBCOR bat standards were put into place in 2011 — one season before single-game high stats were collected. These standards required the use of non-wooden bats that can't produce batted ball speeds that surpass that of wooden bats. What's interesting is when you look at the timeline of collegiate baseball rules put into place over the past half-decade and how that coincides with the number of four-home run games. On that day, Milwaukee Braves Hall of Famers Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron knocked Reds starter Jim Maloney out of the game with back-to-back long balls in the top of the seventh. Cincinnati reliever Marshall Bridges didn't fare any better, serving up home runs to Joe Adcock and Frank Thomas in consecutive at-bats. The "Say Hey Kid" went 4-for-5 with four home runs and eight RBI on April 30, 1961.
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Then Manny Ramirez hit one to deep left-center and the streak began. Drew, Mike Lowell and Jason Varitek to put the Red Sox up 4-3. They went on to win the game 7-6, thanks in part to a second home run from Lowell off Scott Proctor in the seventh inning. Jim Thome started the party with a three-run home run off Joel Peralta, who had walked Ken Griffey Jr. and Carlos Quentin earlier in the inning. Paul Konerko and Alexei Ramirez followed up with solo home runs to end Peralta’s outing. After a pitching change, Rob Tejeda came in and got two strikes on Juan Uribe before allowing a home run, Chicago’s fourth straight home run.
According to the Society for American Baseball Research, Oil Cities catcher Jay J. Clarke went 8-8 with eight home runs, a single-game professional record. However, Clarke’s total is still disputed, reported by some newspapers as three homers and eight runs scored, but there is no surviving box score to help confirm or deny his feat. Martinez became the 19th player in major-league history to hit four home runs in a single game. He hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning, solo shots in the seventh and eighth innings, and a two-run homer in the ninth inning. Indians right fielder Rocco D. Colavito became the ninth player in major-league history to hit four home runs in a single game.
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Delahanty had four home runs in one game in 1896 and only nine for the rest of that season. Anthony Mongeluzzo of Savannah had 4 solo home runs in 4 at-bats. He also homered in his final at-bat of the previous game , giving him home runs in 5 consecutive at-bats overall.
And if not for a Daniel Murphy fly ball to end the four-homer streak, it could’ve been five -- because the batter after Murphy, Anthony Rendon, also went yard. That’s four straight home runs, an out, and then a fifth home run of the inning. It’d be the second of three straight years of him hitting exactly 38 homers. Mike Cameron was coming off a lot of firsts when looking at his 2001 campaign.
Hitting 4 Home Runs in a Game: Who’s Next?
Gennett ended the night with 42 career home runs, meaning he hit 9.5 percent of his home runs to date in one game. It was perhaps the most unlikely of any of the occurrences on this list. The home run per game mark was back up to 0.61 last season and is hovering around the 0.60 mark again so far this year. With this increase in home runs, we're once again seeing more individual multi-homer games again — including those special four-homer performances.
The nearly 15 years between the four-homer games from Mays and Schmidt is the longest gap between two players to reach the milestone. In the second game of a doubleheader, Whiten went 4-for-5 with four homers and 12 RBI against the Reds on Sept. 7, 1993. Most recently, the Nationals did it in 2017 against the Brewers.
No player has accomplished this feat more than once in his career, and no player has ever hit five home runs in one game. Giants center fielder Willie Mays became the 10th player in major-league history to hit four home runs in a game. He went 4-for-5 with 4 home runs and 8 RBI; he missed a chance for a fifth homer when the top of the ninth inning ended with him on deck. Clippers leadoff hitter/center fielder Dick Lane went 6-for-7 with five homers, a single, and 10 RBIs. He hit two home runs in the fourth inning, when the Clippers scored eight runs. Click here to view an Indianapolis Star article about Lane’s feat.
The other such occasion took place in 1986, when Bob Horner struck four home runs for the Braves but the Montreal Expos emerged victorious. The shortest interval took place in 2002, when Mike Cameron hit his four on May 2, 2002, and Shawn Green repeated the feat 21 days later, on May 23. This was the first time two players had achieved a four-homer game in the same season; this would occur again in 2017 when Scooter Gennett and J.
He is the only member of the four-homer club to even have one inside-the-park homer as part of his feat. One-eighth of Hodges' homers that season came in one game, as he clubbed 32 home runs for the year. Schmidt didn't even get the fun started until the fifth inning, when he clubbed a two-run homer before blasting a solo shot in the seventh. He went deep again in the eighth and 10th frames to help the Phils pull out the victory. In response to the drop in offensive numbers, college baseball moved to using a flat seam ball full-time two years ago. According to lab research done at Washington State at the time, it was predicted that this change, which would cause less drag, would lead to upward of 20 added feet on batted balls.
He got himself off to a fast start with a grand slam and a pair of three-run bombs. Mike Schmidt was one of the league’s premier home-run hitters before he enjoyed this historic performance against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. He finished the 1974 and 1975 seasons with the most homers in baseball with 36 and 38, respectively, and he’d be on his way to leading the league in this category again.
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