Posted on 05/23/2002 1:42:04 PM PDT by dead
MILWAUKEE -- Shawn Green hit four home runs Thursday, tying a major-league record and becoming only the 14th player to accomplish the feat.
Amazingly, Green did it exactly three weeks after Mike Cameron's four-homer game for the Seattle Mariners against the Chicago White Sox. Two players had never hit four home runs in a game in the same season.
Green went 6-for-6 with six runs scored and seven RBI in the Los Angeles Dodgers ' 16-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Green's 19 total bases broke the major-league record of 18 set by Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves on July 31, 1954. Green's six hits were a career high. He had collected four hits eight times.
He also tied a modern major-league record for runs scored in a game, becoming the first player to do it since Edgardo Alfonzo of the New York Mets on Aug. 30, 1999, against Houston.
After hitting an RBI double his first time up Thursday, Green hit a three-run homer off Glendon Rusch in the second and solo shots off Brian Mallette in the fourth and fifth innings as the Dodgers took a 10-1 lead.
In the eighth inning, Green singled against Jose Cabrera. Green came up again in the ninth inning against him and connected for the record-tying homer, a 450-foot shot to the right-field power alley. He received a standing ovation from the crowd of 26,728 at Miller Park.
Green homered six times in the series, giving him nine for the year, and he also had an RBI triple for the only run in the Dodgers' 1-0 victory on Wednesday night.
He went 9-for-14 in the series.
Green hit three homers in a game once before, on Aug. 15, 2001, against Montreal
On May 2, Cameron homered in his first four at-bats and just missed hitting a fifth in the ninth inning. Before Cameron, the last player to hit four homers in a game was St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Mark Whiten, who did it Sept. 7, 1993.
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Say, where does Lou Boudreau rank in total bases in a game? I thought he, not Adcock, held the record. Maybe Boudreau just holds the AL mark.
The dodgers will still only finish third in the west.
And say hello to NL player of the week!
Besides, the asterik is saved for the Expos. I hope they are moving to Northern Virginia next year...
All time Season Leader, Total bases link HERE.
Most total bases the year you were born (no kidding), link HERE.
And GAME RECORDS, look under Total Bases.
{GASP!} That is amazing! Had this happened a day earlier or later, it would have been a complete yawner.</sarcasm>
Let's change that "exactly" to "only," shall we? --Ed.
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Just a question- were you watching the game the day Horner hit his four dingers? It is my firm belief that had it not been for the quick reflexes of Mike Sciosia, the Dodger's catcher, Horner would hold the record with five.
For any that didn't see that- Horner came up for his fifth at bat in the 9th because even after hitting four homers, the Braves were still losing. You could just tell by the way he walked up to the plate and by the glint in his eyes that he knew he was going to hit that ball out of the park. He foul tipped a pitch straight back over the catchers head and partly from luck and part lightning quick reflexes- the catcher thrust his mitt up and caught it. I just remember screaming "Damn!" but then again, had the Bravos been winning the game- and by God you should be if you have a man hit four home runs- Horner never would've come up to bat anyway. Oh well.
Talk about lightning quick reflexes. Horner at the plate, so relaxed, then boom. What a quick swing.
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