Foster: Video highlights of (almost) every 4-HR game in MLB history since 1961
From SABR member Jason Foster at The Sporting News on June 7, 2017:
A four-homer game in baseball is even more rare than a perfect game. So, in some ways, it’s even more exciting to watch it unfold.
With Scooter Gennett’s surprising four-homer game Tuesday against the Cardinals, there have been 17 players in MLB history to club four long balls in a single game. Roughly a dozen of them have come in the era of television, which means most of these mighty feats are preserved on video for baseball fans to enjoy decades after the fact.
Here, thanks to the MLB archives, is video of every four-home run game for which video exists (or, at least, that we know exists).
Read the full article here: http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb/news/scooter-gennett-video-highlight-mlb-history-record-four-home-run-games-bob-horner-willie-mays/i3jtzego12lm17pwivkimb21x
Originally published: June 7, 2017. Last Updated: June 7, 2017.