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Baseball Guru
05-23-2002, 04:12 PM
Geez, 2nd time this year a player has hit 4 HR's in 1 game...Game is in the 9th so I have no AP article yet but I'll get it up ASAP....
RockieBill
05-23-2002, 04:46 PM
I was keeping an eye on this too...wow, not even at Coors Field!
Baseball Guru
05-23-2002, 04:56 PM
By ARNIE STAPLETON
AP Sports Writer

May 23, 2002, 4:32 PM EDT

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 RBIs in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 16-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

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'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.

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.
Tigers#1
05-23-2002, 06:33 PM
Man, 19 total bases! Wish i had him on my fantasy team.:2guns:
Special_K19
05-23-2002, 07:17 PM
Good for Shawn, he was having a bad year, maybe this will jumpstart him. And Tigers, he's on my team, lucky for you we aren't playing each other this week.:biggrin:
Tigers#1
05-23-2002, 07:39 PM
Wanna trade?:biggrin:
Special_K19
05-23-2002, 07:56 PM
Make me an offer and you never know:naughty: