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Mike Cameron Hits Four Homers: Today in Sports History

On May 2nd, 2002, Mike Cameron became the 13th player in MLB history to hit four home runs in the same game, leading the Seattle Mariners to a 15-4 win over the Chicago White Sox. The game started out with Ichiro Suzuki being struck by starter Jon Rauch’s first pitch of the evening. Bret Boone sent his second pitch to the stands to make it 2-0, before Cameron made it back-to-back home runs after four more pitches. Rauch was pulled for Jim Parque after getting just one out and allowing six runs, bringing the top of the order back to the plate. Ichiro grounded out, but Boone and Cameron went back-to-back with homers again, becoming the only teammates to ever hit two sets of back-to-back home runs in the same inning. In the third inning, Cameron took Parque deep for a second time to make it three trips around the bases to go up 11-0. The fifth inning saw Cameron knock his fourth solo home run, again off of Parque. Mike Cameron is the only player to hit four solo home runs for his four-homer game, finishing with just four RBIs. He’s also the only player to hit four homers within the first five innings, and one of two players to feature a multi-homer inning in their four-homer outing. Bobby Lowe had two homers in the third inning on May 30, 1894, when he had the first four-homer game in Major League history. Cameron was hit by a pitch in the seventh inning and lined out to right field in the ninth, limiting him to his record-tying four home runs in a single game. As if the offensive performance wasn’t enough, the Gold Glover robbed Magglio Ordóñez of a grand slam in the third inning as well.

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Perry Wins #300

On May 6, 1982, 43-year old Gaylord Perry walked off the Kingdome mound a complete-game winner, and the 15th pitcher in MLB history to reach 300 victories. The 7-3 win over the Yankees, witnessed by 27,369 fans, ended a 19-year drought at the milestone; no one had cracked 300 since Early Wynn in 1963. Perry's path to Seattle was unusual. The Mariners signed the aging right-hander specifically to chase the milestone in front of their fans, and he delivered; going the full nine innings against New York with the kind of guile that defined his career. The spitball, of course, was the legend. Perry was baseball's most famous (and most accused) practitioner of the wet one, though by his own account he kept the pitch in his back pocket the night he got #300, leaning instead on the fastball and curve. He finished his 22-year career with 314 wins, two Cy Young Awards (the first pitcher ever to win one in each league: AL '72 with Cleveland, NL '78 with San Diego), and a 1991 plaque in Cooperstown. The Mariners' gamble paid off!

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Max Max Muncy Muncy

Please take a moment to look at the picture up above. Yes, that is true. Though it seems like a glitch in the matrix it’s not. These two individuals share the exact same name, same profession, some position, drafted by the same team, mostly hit towards the bottom of the order, and don’t even know each other. Completely unrelated too! I’d love to see these two on the same team one day.

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500 / 500 Club, Membership of One

On June 23rd, 2003 In a dramatic extra inning game at Pac Bell Park (now Oracle Park) against the division-rival Los Angeles Dodgers, Bonds delivered one of the signature moments of his career. In the bottom of the 11th inning of a 2-2 tie, he reached base and then swiped second against prime-time closer Éric Gagné (one of the most dominant relievers of that era). That theft was his 500th career stolen base. He famously pulled the base out of the ground, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and carried it off the field as the crowd erupted. The Giants went on to win 3-2 in walk-off fashion, with Bonds scoring the winning run later in the inning. This moment capped an incredible stretch for Bonds. In 2003, despite playing only 130 games, he hit .341 with 45 HR, slugged .749, and posted a .529 on-base percentage — walking 148 times. en.wikipedia.org Love him or hate him (and the era's PED controversies fuel plenty of debate), the 500-500 club remains a club of one more than two decades later. It perfectly symbolizes the rare blend of power, speed, plate discipline, and longevity that defined Bonds at his peak. No one else has come close. This moment capped an incredible stretch for Bonds. In 2003, despite playing only 130 games, he hit .341 with 45 HR, slugged .749, and posted a .529 on-base percentage — walking 148 times. Love him or hate him (and the era's PED controversies fuel plenty of debate), the 500-500 club remains a club of one more than two decades later. It perfectly symbolizes the rare blend of power, speed, plate discipline, and longevity that defined Bonds at his peak. No one else has come close.