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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