Diamondbacks' four straight, including Mark Reynolds' 26th of season, keyed 8-2 win over Milwaukee. At Cleveland Stadium in 1963, Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona and Larry Brown went yard consecutively.
Woodie Held, here at spring training in Tucson in 1962, was one of four Indians who hit consecutive home runs in a 1963 game at Cleveland Stadium.Milwaukee, Wis.
— The Arizona Diamondbacks tied a major league record by hitting four consecutive home runs, with Adam LaRoche, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds and Stephen Drew connecting in the fourth inning Wednesday night to beat Milwaukee 8-2.The Diamondbacks became just the seventh team in history to accomplish the feat.
The Cleveland Indians clouted four straight home runs in a 9-5 win over the Los Angeles Angels in Cleveland Stadium on July 31, 1963. Box score and play-by-play is from Baseball.Reference.com. More on that game at the end of this report.
Arizona nearly made it five home runs in the inning, but Chris Young flied out to deep center field.
Milwaukee starter Dave Bush took a 2-0 lead into the fourth and retired Justin Upton on a fly ball to start the inning.
LaRoche then hit his 19th home run into the Diamondbacks' bullpen and Montero followed with a shot into the second deck in right field.
Reynolds was next with his 26th home run to left and Drew capped the run with his seventh home run to right.
Bush is the first pitcher in the majors to give up four straight home runs since the New York Yankees' Chase Wright did it against Boston on April 22, 2007. Wright now pitches for the Brewers' Triple-A team in Nashville.
Daniel Hudson (3-0) got the win as he continued his strong pitching for Arizona since the Diamondbacks acquired him and pitching prospect David Holmberg from the Chicago White Sox in a deal for starter Edwin Jackson July 30.
Hudson pitched seven innings, giving up two runs and seven hits. He has given up four runs in his three starts for Arizona.
Hudson helped himself in the sixth inning as he ripped a bases-loaded double to increase Arizona's lead to 7-2.
Bush (5-10) took the loss for the Brewers, who lost for the third straight time against Arizona. He gave up seven runs in 5 1/3 innings.
The Brewers continued to struggle at the plate, despite the return of All-Star outfielder Corey Hart to the lineup. Hart had missed the past two games with a sore back. He went 0 for 3 with a walk. Brewers' All-Star left fielder Ryan Braun did not start his third straight game with a bruised wrist. He pinch-hit in the eighth inning and struck out.
Prince Fielder hit his 25th home run of the season in the second inning. It was Fielder's first home run since July 22 against Pittsburgh. Casey McGehee hit the next pitch for his 15th home run to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead.
A crowd of 7,288 at Cleveland Stadium on July 31, 1963 watched Indians infielder Woodie Held, pitcher Pedro Ramos, outfielder Tito Francona and shortstop Larry Brown slug four straight solo homers off Angels right-hander Paul Foytack in the bottom of the sixth inning. The homers built the Indians' lead to 9-1.
It was quite a night for Ramos. Not only did he strike out 15 in 8 1/3 innings to get the win, but he hit two homers. Ramos went deep for the game's first run in the third inning. Indians first baseman Fred "Wingy" Whitfield belted a grand slam homer later in the inning.
Ramos hit 15 homers in his career, a significant number for a pitcher. Held hit 179; Francona, the father of Red Sox manager Terry Francona, hit 125; Brown, 47; Whitfield, 108.