MLB hitters with four home runs in one game

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Listed below are the 15 Major League Baseball players who have hit four home runs in a single game. No player has accomplished this feat more than once in his career.

Date	Player	Team	Opposing team	Score
May 30, 1894	Bobby Lowe	Boston Beaneaters, NL	Cincinnati Reds	20-11
July 13, 1896	Ed Delahanty	Philadelphia Phillies, NL	Chicago Colts	8-9
June 3, 1932	Lou Gehrig	New York Yankees, AL	Philadelphia Athletics	20-13
July 10, 1936	Chuck Klein	Philadelphia Phillies, NL	Pittsburgh Pirates	9-6
July 18, 1948	Pat Seerey	Chicago White Sox, AL	Philadelphia Athletics	12-11
August 31, 1950	Gil Hodges	Brooklyn Dodgers, NL	Boston Braves	19-3
July 31, 1954	Joe Adcock	Milwaukee Braves, NL	Brooklyn Dodgers	15-7
June 10, 1959	Rocky Colavito	Cleveland Indians, AL	Baltimore Orioles	11-8
April 30, 1961	Willie Mays	San Francisco Giants, NL	Milwaukee Braves	14-4
April 17, 1976	Mike Schmidt	Philadelphia Phillies, NL	Chicago Cubs	18-16
July 6, 1986	Bob Horner	Atlanta Braves, NL	Montreal Expos	8-11
September 7, 1993	Mark Whiten	St. Louis Cardinals, NL	Cincinnati Reds	15-2
May 2, 2002	Mike Cameron	Seattle Mariners, AL	Chicago White Sox	15-4
May 23, 2002	Shawn Green	Los Angeles Dodgers, NL	Milwaukee Brewers	16-3
September 25, 2003	Carlos Delgado	Toronto Blue Jays, AL	Tampa Bay Devil Rays	10-8

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Lowe, Gehrig, Colavito, Schmidt, Cameron and Delgado hit their four home runs in consecutive at bats.
Lowe only had 71 home runs over 18 years in the big leagues. Seerey only had 86 home runs in seven seasons. Delahanty had four home runs in one game in 1896 and only nine for the rest of that season.
Klein, Seerey and Schmidt needed extra innings to get four home runs.
Delahanty's home runs were either all inside-the-park, or two of each (accounts vary, but in any case, he is the only one that had any inside-the-park home runs as part of a four-home-run game).
Gehrig hit a deep fly in his final at-bat that narrowly missed being a fifth home run.
Adcock hit a double off the top of the wall in his second at bat that also narrowly missed being a fifth home run. His 18 total bases for a 9-inning game was a major league record until Shawn Green broke it during his 4-homer game.
Horner's and Delahanty's home runs came in losing efforts.
Whiten's home runs drove in 12 runs, which also tied him for the major league record for most RBIs in a game. His feat came in the second game of a doubleheader. Whiten was 0-4 in the first game but drove in the go-ahead run with a bases-loaded walk in the eight inning. His 13 RBI for the day is a MLB record for a doubleheader.
All four of Cameron's home runs were solo shots, and all were hit before the sixth inning.
Green also doubled and singled, going 6-for-6 and setting a single-game record of 19 total bases.
Cameron and Green are the only pair of players to hit four homeruns in a single game each in the same year, and only three weeks apart.
Gehrig, Seerey, Colavito, Cameron, and Delgado all share the American League record of 16 total bases in one game.