Baseball Guru
05-26-2002, 04:52 PM
PHOENIX (AP) - Shawn Green hit two more home runs Saturday night, breaking a major league record with seven homers in the past three games.
The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger hit a three-run homer off Arizona's Rick Helling in the fifth inning and a two-run shot in the ninth off Eddie Oropesa.
Green tied the major league record with four homers on Thursday in Milwaukee. He homered Friday against the Diamondbacks to match the record for homers in two games.
A player had homered six times in three games 11 times before Green broke the record. Barry Bonds was the last to do it, on May 19-21, 2001, for San Francisco.
Green also broke a National League record with nine homers in a calendar week. Frank Howard of Washington holds the major league record with 10 in 1968.
Green had only three homers coming into the week.
His first homer in 18 career at-bats against Helling came on a 1-0 pitch. It was a towering three-run shot that landed 414 feet away on a picnic pavilion cut out of the grandstand to the left of the dark green hitter's background in center field.
Helling leads the National League in homers allowed with 15.
The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger hit a three-run homer off Arizona's Rick Helling in the fifth inning and a two-run shot in the ninth off Eddie Oropesa.
Green tied the major league record with four homers on Thursday in Milwaukee. He homered Friday against the Diamondbacks to match the record for homers in two games.
A player had homered six times in three games 11 times before Green broke the record. Barry Bonds was the last to do it, on May 19-21, 2001, for San Francisco.
Green also broke a National League record with nine homers in a calendar week. Frank Howard of Washington holds the major league record with 10 in 1968.
Green had only three homers coming into the week.
His first homer in 18 career at-bats against Helling came on a 1-0 pitch. It was a towering three-run shot that landed 414 feet away on a picnic pavilion cut out of the grandstand to the left of the dark green hitter's background in center field.
Helling leads the National League in homers allowed with 15.