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 Bobby Lowe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On May 30, 1894, Lowe became the first major leaguer ever to hit four home runs in one game, doing it in consecutive at-bat.
In his 18-season career, he batted.273, with 71 HR, 984 RBI, 1131 runs, 1929 hits, 230 doubles, 85 triples and 302 stolen bases in 1818 games.
Batters with four home runs in one game
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 Chuck Klein
A conscientious worker and hustler, Klein captured four home run championships, two RBI titles, and a batting title for the Phillies.
On July 10, 1936, Klein became the first NL player to slug four home runs in a game in the 20th century.
In his 17-year career Klein batted.320, with 398 doubles, 1201 runs batted in, 1168 runs, 1168 hits (870 extra-bases), and 300 home runs.
www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/chuck_klein   (576 words)

  
 Pat Seerey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Patrick Seerey (March 17, 1923 - April 28, 1986) was an American outfielder and right-handed batter in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians (1943-48) and Chicago White Sox (1948).
In his 561-game career he batted for.224, with 86 home runs and 261 runs batted in.
Seerey led the league in strikeouts four times (1944-46, 1948), and he is one of 15 players in MLB history who hit four home runs in a single game (July 18, 1948).
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pat_Seerey   (140 words)

  
 Philadelphia Phillies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
A rare distinction in baseball is to have hit four home runs in one game.
The Phillies have had three batters with four home runs in a game, this is more than any other team, past or present.
A series of terrible managers and general managers was briefly interrupted by 1993's magical run, which ended in a World Series defeat to the defending champions, the Toronto Blue Jays.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philadelphia_Phillies   (1902 words)

  
 Orioles Let One Slip Away   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The first home run given up by Jorge Julio landed on a grassy mound past the center field fence.
The next home run in the inning landed in the left field stands, boosting Pittsburgh to a 6-5 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday.
Four home runs, including one by Sammy Sosa, had given Penn what appeared to be an adequate lead.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/07/AR2005060701880_pf.html   (672 words)

  
 Four home runs pace U.S. squad to 8-0 victory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The USA has now run ruled four of the five opponents they have faced and improve their record to 5-0.
USA Gold needed only three runs in the bottom of the fifth to end the game by the run rule.
Brundage then hit her second home run of the game to right center to end the game.
www.usasoftball.com /Women/Canadacup/99CanadaCup/game%20recaps/99CCgame09ecap.htm   (297 words)

  
 Wilson's 11th Inning Single Gives Bears Sweep Over Yale :: Fleitell recorded two of the Bear's three home runs in the ...
Fleitell padded the Bear's lead to two, when she recorded her first of two home runs in the third inning, hitting the ball over the left field fence for the 2-0 lead after three innings of play.
In the sixth inning, freshman Amy Baxter (Hollister, CA) recorded her third home run of the season, hitting a two out, two run shot to left center field, for a four run lead.
Fleitell tacked on another run for the Bears in the top of the seventh inning, when she hit her second solo home run of the game, giving Brown a 5-0 lead.
www.collegesports.com /sports/w-softbl/stories/050105acr.html   (661 words)

  
 Rocky Colavito - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The same season he smashed four homers in consecutive at-bats in a single game.
Just before the 1960 season, Indians general manager Frank Lane traded Colavito, the defending American League home run champion, to the Detroit Tigers for Harvey Kuenn, who had won the previous season's batting average title.
In 1965, with Gabe Paul running the team, Colavito, now with the Chicago White Sox, was brought back.
67.15.54.21 /wiki/Rocky_Colavito   (434 words)

  
 janecek.com - San Francisco Giants 2002
Game 1 in Ahaheim saw the first 3 hits be solo home runs.
Game 2 Thursday night, in Atlanta, the Braves chased Kirk Rueter in 3+ innings with 7 runs.
Game 1: Wednesday afternoon in Atlanta, SF had two big innings early, getting 4 hits back-to-back in each the 2nd and the 4th, picking up 3 runs in each inning.
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 Baseball Rips Illinois 16-2 In Game Two :: Four Home Runs, Gassner's Nine Strikeouts Highlight Victory Over Illinois
David Harrell then crushed his fifth home run of the year to give the Boilermakers a 3-0 lead.
Klink scored his second run of the game as Duursma hit his second double of the series, increasing Purdue's lead to 13-0.
the 16 runs scored is the ninth game of the season Purdue has scored in double-digits, their second 16-run output in its last four games and fourth double-digit output in conference games...
purduesports.fansonly.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/042101aab.html   (1236 words)

  
 Oakland Athletics, Mark Kotsay, Eric Byrnes, Rich Harden, Major League Baseball, Texas Rangers - CBS SportsLine.com
Durazo hit one of four home runs by the Athletics in their 9-2 victory over Texas on Sunday that trimmed another game off the Rangers' division lead.
Kotsay, who had his second career multihomer game in Saturday's 6-2 win, connected for his eighth homer in the fourth, a solo shot over the scoreboard in right against Rangers starter John Wasdin (1-2) to make it 5-0.
Wasdin, who allowed seven runs and 11 hits in 4 2/3 innings, was a rookie in Eckersley's final season in 1995.
www.sportsline.com /mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20040725_TEX@OAK   (1151 words)

  
 Box Score of Four Home Run Game by Mike Schmidt by Baseball Almanac
The Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs combined for a staggering thirty-four runs in this slugfest which featured nine home runs including four consecutive long balls by Mike Schmidt.
Home Runs: Maddox, Swisher, Monday 2, Schmidt 4, Boone.
: Knowles pitched to one batter in 10th inning.
www.baseball-almanac.com /boxscore/04171976.shtml   (172 words)

  
 No. 1 Stanford Returns To Action With 7-3 Win At Saint Mary's :: Cardinal hits four home runs as Danny Putnam, John ...
Saint Mary's tied the score at 2-2 with another run in the bottom of the fifth.
On my home run, I was just trying to hit to the opposite field and get the ball in the air.
Stanford scored its final two runs of the game in the top of the eighth when Ash singled to lead off the inning and scored two batters later on Putnam's two-run blast.
gostanford.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/032304aaa.html   (887 words)

  
 Power Over Portland :: Season-high 24 hits and four home runs give LMU 21-9 game two win.
Every LMU starter registered a hit for the second time in three games, led by sophomore Elvis Herrera who went 4-for-4 with an RBI and four runs scored.
LMU scored eight runs on four hits, and took advantage of two errors and three hit batters by the Pilots' Stephen Ball and Joe Jones to put up the highest-scoring inning of the season for the 21-9 final.
But after four runs scored, Andy Beal took over for Kahn with bases loaded and one out and got Nik Kosach to ground into a double play to end the inning.
www.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/stories/040905aeq.html   (784 words)

  
 Scout.com: Lowe Allows Four Homers in 7-5 Loss
Los Angeles lost a rare afternoon game in front of another great crowd, 44,457, when starter Derek Lowe allowed a career-worst four home runs and left after three innings.
Lowe (5-9) has given up 13 home runs in 113.2 innings but it was the first time in his 414-game career he had allowed four home runs in one game and the start was his shortest of the year.
They pulled to 6-4 in the fifth on the second home run of the afternoon by the surging J.D. Drew, who is now 8 for 15 since missing five games with pain in his left knee.
dodgers.scout.com /2/392533.html?refid=3487   (708 words)

  
 Major League Baseball : Video : Baseball's Best - 1970's
Yet for all his accomplishments, the Cooperstown-bound hurler was unable to bag his own personal white whale in the form of a complete game no-no. All of that changed on one night in the middle of June.
October 11, 1972 -- After lashing a single and a homer in Game 4 of the 1972 NLCS, Hall-of-Famer Roberto Clemente was forced to watch from the outfield as the Reds capped a comeback in Game 5 to advance to the World Series.
Cuellar was backed by home runs by Frank Robinson and Merv Rettenmund, which highlighted a nine-run, 15-hit onslaught that saw every Baltimore position but Brooks Robinson either score or drive in a run.
www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/mlb/baseballs_best/mlb_bb_library70.jsp   (1544 words)

  
 Clemson Explodes For 15 Hits, Four Home Runs in 12-2 Win Over #4 South Carolina Wednesday :: Stephen Faris pitches the ...
It was the sophomore righthander's second complete game in a row, the first Tiger to accomplish that feat since Ryan Mottl in 2000.
Taylor Harbin had a single, his sixth home run of the season, and a career-high five RBIs to lead the Tigers.
The four home runs were the most in a game by Clemson this season.
theacc.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/041305aac.html   (808 words)

  
 TCU Pounds UT-Arlington, 11-2 :: Frogs hit four home runs in second straight victory
Four different Frogs homered in the contest as the Frogs put 11 runs up in the second through fifth innings.
Chad Huffman was a perfect 4-for-4 at the plate with three RBI and a home run.
After a Matt Carpenter single, Keith Conlon cleared the bases with his first career home run at TCU to give the Frogs a 3-0 lead.
www.gofrogs.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/040505aaa.html   (587 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In 1999, he committed four errors during the entire season, and began a run of a hundred and one errorless games at the position, a string unmatched by any shortstop in major-league history.
After the game was over—the Mets had rallied energetically, converting an 0-7 deficit into an eventual 8-7 lead, only to lose the thing in the eleventh, on a home run by the vibrant Montreal slugger Vladimir Guerrero—I drove home in a refreshed haze of Metsian wonder.
Bonds drew four more walks and a plunk on the side (another form of free pass) across the remainder of this game and the next two, while the Giants finished their sweep and at last knocked the Mets out of first place.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?020527fa_FACT1   (4184 words)

  
 Mark Whiten -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Whiten hit four (A base hit on which the batter scores a run) home runs and drove in 12 runs to tie an all-time single-game record.
He also tied NL mark for (Click link for more info and facts about runs batted in) runs batted in in a doubleheader (13).
Whiten suffered a pulled rib-cage muscles early at the '94 season that limited him to play in 92 games.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Mark_Whiten.htm   (365 words)

  
 No. 6 Gators Take Game One From FSU With 8-1 Win Friday Night :: Florida starter Tommy Boss pitched the first complete ...
The four runs allowed were the most Henry has allowed in any appearance in 2005.
It was his 10th home run of the year tying him for the team lead.
It was his second home run of the season versus the Gators with both coming in Gainesville.
theacc.collegesports.com /sports/m-basebl/recaps/061005aac.html   (1009 words)

  
 Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com - Astros blast past Marlins in 10-5 win
Berkman tied the game at 1 with his 30th homer in the second inning.
Moises Alou, who returned to the lineup after missing three games with a strained right hamstring, singled and extended his hitting streak to seven games.
Fox hit his first home runs of the season, a solo shot in the first inning, and Redmond added an inside-the-park homer in the second.
www.oldconcretestreet.com /2001/august/13/today/texasspo/8299.html   (781 words)

  
 Baseball Uses Longball As Dolphins Split Doubleheader At Samford :: Dolphins hit four home runs as JU falls 6-3 in game ...
Joining in on the home run parade for the Dolphins were Jami Rodgers (Mcclenny, Fla.) and Chad Hauseman (Pottstown, Pa.).
In the sixth, left fielder Chad Hauseman belted a solo home run to left with one away before third baseman Billy Kickham, Weed and Nover loaded the bases on a hit, walk and hit, respectively.
In game one, Samford starter Jared Smith pitched a beauty, giving up four hits and three earned runs with five strikeouts and three walks in six and one third innings of work.
www.fansonly.com /schools/jack/sports/m-basebl/recaps/041401aaa.html   (797 words)

  
 NCAA Division I Baseball - CBS SportsLine.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The demoted Brown hit two of his team's four home runs as the Wildcats defeated Arkansas 7-2 in a College World Series elimination game.
Jason Donald hit the Wildcats' fourth home run of the game leading off the ninth inning.
The Hogs mustered only one run in the fifth after they loaded the bases with none out on back-to-back singles and a walk.
www.sportsline.com /collegebaseball/story/7437260   (801 words)

  
 Pat Seerey -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Seerey was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Wilburton, Oklahoma) Wilburton, Oklahoma.
In his 561-game career he (Click link for more info and facts about batted) batted for.224, with 86 (A base hit on which the batter scores a run) home runs and 261 (Click link for more info and facts about runs batted in) runs batted in.
Seerey led the league in (An out resulting from the batter getting three strikes) strikeouts four times (1944-46, 1948), and he is one of 15 players in MLB history who hit four home runs in a single game (July 18, (Click link for more info and facts about 1948) 1948).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Pa/Pat_Seerey.htm   (172 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Remembering the good things about baseball
Attending a minor-league game for less than the price of beer at Yankee Stadium and watching the dizzy bat race, where two fans place their foreheads on an up-right bat, circle it 10 times, then stagger toward first base as if they were Dudley Moore rushing to meet Liza Minnelli in "Arthur."
The home run to Estes was the first Clemens had ever allowed to a pitcher.
Since hitting four home runs in one game, Mike Cameron has hit only one home run and seen his average fall to.218.
espn.go.com /mlb/columns/caple_jim/1395888.html   (1192 words)

  
 Adcock is answer to more than one trivia question
On July 31, 1954, Adcock had the most productive game in baseball history, hitting four home runs and a double for a record 18 total bases as the Braves beat the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.
Adcock, who had 336 career home runs and a career.277 batting average, moved to the Cleveland Indians in 1963 and finished his playing career with three seasons with the California Angels.
But he certainly deserves his own unique place in baseball history as a shareholder of the major league record for four home runs in one game and as the player who broke up baseball’s longest no-hitter.
texnews.com /1998/1999/sports/alcol0504.html   (677 words)

  
 Houston Astros, Craig Biggio, Lance Berkman, Andy Pettitte, Major League Baseball, Philadelphia Phillies - CBS ...
Biggio and Berkman set an Astros mark by hitting consecutive home runs twice in one game, and Andy Pettitte won his fifth consecutive decision to lead Houston past the Philadelphia Phillies 7-1 Monday.
It also was the 15th multihomer game of Biggio's career, and Berkman's 14th.
The win moved the Astros a half-game ahead of Philadelphia in the NL wild-card race, three games behind Washington and Atlanta, who are tied for the NL East lead.
www.cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/gamecenter/recap/MLB_20050725_PHI@HOU   (1122 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Season-best power surge carries Nats past Astros   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
But the Nationals homered four times Tuesday for the first time this season to win their first one-run decision since July 8.
Notes: The last time the Nationals hit four home runs in a game was Aug. 24, 2004, against the Dodgers, when the franchise was still in Montreal.
With his home run in the second inning, Houston's Ensberg became the first Astros third baseman to hit 30 home runs in a season.
www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/games/2005-08-09-nationals-astros2_x.htm   (715 words)

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