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No player has ever hit four home runs in a postseason game; that record is three, first accomplished by Babe Ruth in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series. [2] 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 ...
6 singles in a 9-inning game 18: Baseball Almanac: 4 home runs in a game 18: Baseball Almanac: 6 or more runs scored in a game 19: Baseball Almanac: 7 or more runs scored in a game 1: Guy Hecker. August 15, 1886 [10] Home run on first pitch in the major leagues: 3: Baseball Almanac: Home run in final at bat in the major leagues: 69: Baseball ...
On October 7, 2001, the last game of the 2001 Major League Baseball season, the San Francisco Giants faced the Los Angeles Dodgers at San Francisco's Pacific Bell Park. [5] Giants slugger Barry Bonds was trying to add to his single season home run record he had set two days before. [ 6 ]
On July 4, 1985, [2] [3] [4] the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 16–13 in a 19-inning Major League Baseball (MLB) contest [5] that featured Keith Hernandez hitting for the cycle, [6] Mets manager Davey Johnson being ejected, and the Braves coming back to tie the game twice in extra innings, most notably in the bottom of the 18th.
He knocked in a run with a base hit in the eighth inning that made it 11-4, his first RBI of the Series. In the end, he batted .184 over 14 postseason games with nine RBIs, a .752 OPS and 20 strikeouts in 49 at-bats. That leaves him with a .205 average, 34 RBIs, a .768 OPS and 86 strikeouts in 58 career postseason games.
[1] [2] One hundred nineteen different players have recorded at least six hits in a single nine-inning Major League Baseball game. Five players have accomplished the feat more than once in their career; no player has ever recorded more than seven hits in a nine-inning game.
Kerry Carpenter's dramatic 3-run home run in the ninth inning evened the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Guardians ALDS at a game apiece.
Inscribed on the ball was a note from Ruth that read, "I'll knock a homer for you on Wednesday", in Game 4 of the series. [ 2 ] After Ruth hit three home runs in Game 4 on Wednesday, October 6, newspapers reported that Sylvester's condition had miraculously improved.