2+ homers in a post-season game
Posted by Andy on October 13, 2007
A reader asked for a listing of all the post-season games in which a batter hit 2 or more homers. The full list of 106 such games is right here.
Here are the guys from that list with 3-HR games:
Cnt Player Date Series G Tm Opp GmReslt PA AB R H 2B 3B **HR** RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS BOr Positions +----+-----------------+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+--+--+--+--+--+--+------+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+---------+ 1 Adam Kennedy 2002-10-13 ALCS 5 ANA MIN W 13-5 4 4 3 4 0 0 3 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9th 2B 2 George Brett 1978-10-06 ALCS 3 KCR @NYY L 5-6 5 5 3 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1st 3B 3 Reggie Jackson 1977-10-18 WS 6 NYY LAD W 8-4 4 3 4 3 0 0 3 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4th RF 4 Bob Robertson 1971-10-03 NLCS 2 PIT @SFG W 9-4 5 5 4 4 1 0 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5th 1B 5 Babe Ruth 1928-10-09 WS 4 NYY @STL W 7-3 5 5 3 3 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3rd LF 6 Babe Ruth 1926-10-06 WS 4 NYY @STL W 10-5 5 3 4 3 0 0 3 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3rd LF
So Babe did it twice, and the Brett and Reggie games were both very memorable. I didn't know about the Robertson game, and I admit I had forgotten that Adam Kennedy did it recently.
And here are the guys who had 2+ HR games at least twice in the post-season:
Games Link to Individual Games +-----------------+-----+-------------------------+ Babe Ruth 4 Ind. Games Manny Ramirez 3 Ind. Games Bernie Williams 2 Ind. Games Jim Thome 2 Ind. Games Duke Snider 2 Ind. Games Mickey Mantle 2 Ind. Games Jeff Kent 2 Ind. Games Eric Karros 2 Ind. Games Chipper Jones 2 Ind. Games Reggie Jackson 2 Ind. Games Troy Glaus 2 Ind. Games Lou Gehrig 2 Ind. Games Steve Garvey 2 Ind. Games George Brett 2 Ind. Games Carlos Beltran 2 Ind. Games Willie Aikens 2 Ind. Games
Hey, when Willie Aikens and Eric Karros are the worst players on a list, it must be a pretty good list. At least Joe Carter didn't make it! 🙂