Posted on 05/08/2012 7:54:37 PM PDT by TexasNative2000
Texas Rangers outfielder Josh Hamilton's torrid 2012 season now includes his first career four-home-run game, all of them two-run shots in a 10-3 win over the Baltimore Orioles.
Hamilton homered off Jake Arrieta in the first and third innings, added another off Zach Phillips in the seventh and topped it off with a one-for-the-books shot against Darren O'Day in the eighth. During the last at-bat, Hamilton took a mighty hack and missed, lined a foul into right-field seats and then sent an 0-2 pitch over the center-field wall.
It marked the 16th four-home-run game in major league history. Hamilton is the first to accomplish the feat since Carlos Delgado did so on Sept. 25, 2003, for Toronto against Tampa Bay. Two of the 16 players to hit four homers in a game did it before 1900. Hamilton is the sixth AL player to perform the feat.
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In honor of this feat, I am booking a trip to Hawaii.
Good for Josh.
Beast
Bush’s fault..wait..it might be..lol..
Ouch.
Gee, has he earned his ‘creds’ yet?
Was the double close to being a home run?
Had to read that headline two or three times to mentally absorb it. That’s just incredible!
None of us will probably see anything like this again during our lifetimes. 4 Home Runs in a game is one thing, but 4 - TWO RUN homers is just unreal! I’d say this performance was next to impossible.
I’d been running around doing errands and such with daughter and son met me at the door and announced he was wearing his Josh Hamilton shirt to school tomorrow. We subscribed to the MLB season and he is paying for it with some of his lawn mowing money . . . we live in Braves territory.
Go Rangers!!!! I lived in Arlington for almost 20 years. Loved it there.
I’d been running around doing errands and such with daughter and son met me at the door and announced he was wearing his Josh Hamilton shirt to school tomorrow. We subscribed to the MLB season and he is paying for it with some of his lawn mowing money . . . we live in Braves territory.
Go Rangers!!!! I lived in Arlington for almost 20 years. Loved it there.
Cincinnati was crazy. We got Edinson Volquez and he’s traded and playing poorly someplace out west, I think.
The double was off the wall.
It one-hopped the wall in right-center. Probably travelled 360 ft. in the air and never got 35 feet off the ground.
Better check my eyes as I thought it had hit off the wall about midway up.
Texas is downright scary this year....Congratulations Mr Hamilton.
And the other oddity about them all being 2-run homers was the same guy (Andrus) scored on all of them.
Texas is scary because Texas is hungry.
Hamilton homered in his last AB in Monday nights game, so his last 6 AB’s are 5 home runs and a double. 22 total bases in 6 at bats.
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