Single Game Ultimate* Feats:

[packs]

I think Bobby Lowe was the first to hit four homers.

I was also at Yankee Stadium in 2000 when Randy Velarde made an unassisted triple play. It would have been my guess if I didn’t see someone had the right answer already.

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by packs

I think Bobby Lowe was the first to hit four homers.

I was also at Yankee Stadium in 2000 when Randy Velarde made an unassisted triple play. It would have been my guess if I didn’t see someone had the right answer already.

Correct! Lowe was the first to hit 4-homers in a single game.

HINT: the most recent player to hit 4HRs in a single game, has played in both leagues; is currently playing in the NL; played on a different NL team last year.


Velarde accomplished his UTP on May 29, 2000. Four others have done so since.

HINT: The first to make an UTP, did so in 1909 for Cleveland

[clydepepper]

J. D. Martinez was the last player to hit 4 homers in a single game on September 4, 2017, just short of three months after a guy named Scooter did it...what are the odds of that, huh?


Neal Ball turned the first unassisted triple play on July 19, 1909. The second UTP was turned in the 1920 World Series by Bill Wambsganss, This was one of six UTPs turned in the 1920s...then there were none for another 41 seasons!

[packs]

Four homers in a game and a perfect game are probably the pinnacle of single game feats and I guess it’s just baseball for you that the feat was accomplished both by some of the best players in the game and some of the more anonymous players at the same time.

[clydepepper]

and...


*- not including what Fernando Tatis, Sr., Chan Ho Park, & Joe Torre did.


Tatis, Sr. hit two grand slams in a single INNING, Park served them up and Torre grounded into four double plays in a single game!


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[ALR-bishop]

Mark Whiten of the Cardinals had 4 home runs and 12 RBIs on 9-3-93. The 12 RBIs tied him with another Cardinal, Jim Bottemly, who did it on 9-16-24