Box Score of Four Home Run Game by Willie Mays

The San Francisco Giants scored fourteen runs against the Milwaukee Braves and eight of them belonged to Willie Mays who went deep in the first, third, sixth, and eighth inning to join the elite four home runs club.

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"When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody." - Willie Mays

4 Home Runs in 1 Game
by Willie Mays

Willie Mays

April 30, 1961 at County Stadium

San Francisco Giants
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Chuck Hiller 2b 6 2 3 1
Jim Davenport 3b 4 3 1 1
Willie Mays cf 5 4 4 8
Willie McCovey 1b 3 0 0 0
Jim Marshall 1b 0 0 0 0
Orlando Cepeda lf 5 1 1 1
Matty Alou lf 0 0 0 0
Felipe Alou rf 4 1 1 1
Ed Bailey c 4 0 0 0
Jose Pagan ss 5 3 4 2
Billy Loes p 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 39 14 14 14
Milwaukee Braves
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Roy McMillan ss 4 1 1 0
Frank Bolling 2b 4 1 2 0
Eddie Mathews 3b 4 0 1 0
Hank Aaron cf 4 2 2 4
Mel Roach lf 4 0 1 0
Joe Adcock 1b 4 0 0 0
Charlie Lau c 3 0 1 0
Don McMahon p 0 0 0 0
George Brunet p 0 0 0 0
c-Lee Maye ph 0 0 0 0
John DeMerit rf 4 0 0 0
Lew Burdette p 1 0 0 0
Carl Willey p 0 0 0 0
Moe Drabowsky p 0 0 0 0
a-Billy Martin ph 1 0 0 0
Seth Morehead p 0 0 0 0
Ken MacKenzie p 0 0 0 0
b-Johnny Logan ph 1 0 0 0
Hawk Taylor c 0 0 0 0
TOTALS 34 4 8 4

a: Flied out for Drabowsky in 5th inning.
b
: Struck out for MacKenzie in 7th inning.
c: Walked for Brunet in 9th inning.

Double Plays: Davenport-Hiller-Marshall, Burdette-McMillan-Adcock, Bolling-McMillan-Adcock.
Doubles
: Hiller 2.
Error: Mathews.
Home Runs: Mays 4, Pagan 2, Cepeda, F. Alou, Aaron 2.
Left on Base: San Francisco 6, Milwaukee 4.
Sacrifice Hits: Loes 2.
Triple: Davenport.

Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
San Francisco 1 0 3 3 0 4 0 3 0 14 14 0
Milwaukee 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 8 1
San Francisco Giants
Name IP H R ER BB SO
Billy Loes 9.0 8 4 4 1 3
Milwaukee Braves
Name IP H R ER BB SO
1-Lew Burdette 3.0 5 5 5 0 0
Carl Willey 1.0 3 2 2 0 0
Moe Drabowsky 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
Seth Morehead 1.0 2 4 4 1 1
Ken MacKenzie 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Don McMahon 1.0 3 3 3 2 0
George Brunet 1.0 1 0 0 0 0

1: Pitched to one batter in 4th inning.

Hit by Pitcher: Davenport (by Burdette), Bailey (by MacKenzie).
Losing Pitcher: Burdette.
Winning Pitcher: Loes.

Attendance: 12,263.
Length of Game: 2:53.
Umpires: HP: Dusty Boggess, 1B: Bill Engeln.
Umpires: 2B: Bill Stewart, 3B: Al Barlick.
4 Home Runs in 1 Game by Willie Mays
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baseball almanac fast facts

When Willie Mays was in the eleventh grade he played center field for the Black Barons of the Negro League and in 1948 the Barons won it all!

Four years after this game was played, on September 13, 1965, Don Nottebart would give up Willie Mays' career home run number five-hundred.

Did you know that Willie Mays went deep on two-hundred sixty-seven different pitchers in twenty-two different ballparks?