What's the most consecutive home runs by a hitter in the MLB?

Question

In one game what player has hit the most back to back home runs? Oh and I'm also just wonderin' what team as a whole has had it's hitters hit the most consecutive home runs? Did that make sense? Which individual player and team?

Answer 1

The Boston Red Sox hit 4 straight Home Runs back to back to back to back earlier this season.

Answer 2

The record for consecutive HRs by a team is 4. The Red Sox did it against the Yankees earlier this year. And, the Dodgers did it last year in the 9th inning to tie the game. Two or three other teams have done it as well.

Six players have hit 4 consecutive home runs in one game. Mike Cameron, Rocky Colavito, Carlos Delgado, Lou Gehrig, Bobby Lowe and Mike Schmidt. No player has ever hit 5 consecutive HRs.

Answer 3

The most consecutive home runs by one player is four; that is, four homers in four at-bats, although plate appearances not counted as at-bats (primarily walks and hit-by-pitches) can interrupt, and often have.

In one game, it has been done six times, by Lowe, Schmidt, Gehrig, Colavito, Cameron, and Delgado.

Over two games, many times -- just to toss out some of the better-known names: Foxx, Greenberg, Mantle, Murcer, Baylor, Ramirez, Glaus, Kiner twice, Musial, Schmidt (another instance, not his 4-HR game), Santiago, That Guy In San Francisco, Green, Andruw Jones, and Bo Jackson. Bo did it most impressively -- hit three on 17-July-1990, got injured late in the game, came back on 26-August and went deep. Ah, that Bo, it was always something amazing.

It's also been done two times over three games and once over a four-game span, by the incomparable Ted Williams.

The team record for consecutive HR is four, by the 2007 Red Sox, 2006 Dodgers, and three other times in the early 1960s Answers abounded on this site after the Sox turned the trick back in April, and there's a handy search engine up top to help with the details.

Answer 4

I know a few guys have the record for homers in consecutive games (Griffey, Dale Long and somebody else recently did it in 8 straight games). For consecutive at bats, I don't know all has done it but I'm pretty sure the record is 4 or 5...somebody that hit 4 in a game and then 1 in the next game.

Answer 5

don mattingly of the yankss