“As another high-fly ball walloped toward center ... (Jackie) Bradley goes the wall. And it’s gone!”
Chip Caray’s call of Braves outfielder’s Adam Duvall third home run Wednesday in Boston may have seemed anticlimactic, but it marked a baseball first.
Following Marcell Ozuna’s own three-homer game a day before, the Braves became the first team in baseball history to have players hit three-home runs in back-to-back games, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
Here are five things to know about this feat and other Braves’ three-home run games:
⋅ The mark was for consecutive games not days. That record was already set by New York teammates Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who had three-homer games on back-to-back days in 1930 against the Philadelphia Athletics. Ruth hit three-homers in the first game of a May 21 Yankees doubleheader. Gehrig’s came in the second game of a May 22 doubleheader.
⋅ Ozuna’s tri-homer night in Boston was the first since Matt Kemp had a three-dinger night April 29, 2017, in Milwaukee.
⋅ Ozuna’s six RBI were the most by a Braves player in a single game since 2008, when Jeff Francoeur (3-for-5, 2 HR) drove in seven on April 12 against Washington. Duvall drove in five runs with two-run homers in both the second and sixth innings, and his solo shot in the eighth.
⋅ Duvall and Ozuna combined for eight homers those two nights in Boston.
⋅ Duvall’s three-homer night was the 25th time a Braves player (since 1900) hit three in one game. The feat has been replicated 16 times since the franchise moved to Atlanta in 1966. Here’s who and when:
- Gene Oliver, C (July 30, 1966)
- Bob Tilman, C (July 30, 1969)
- Rico Carty, LF (May 31, 1970)
- Mike Lum, RF (July 3, 1970)
- Orlando Cepeda, 1B (July 26, 1970)
- Dale Murphy, C (May 18, 1979)
- Bob Horner, 1B (July 6, 1986) - He actually hit four — the franchise’ single-game record.
- Ken Griffey, LF (July 22, 1986)
- Jeff Treadway, 2B (May 26, 1990)
- Jeff Blauser, SS (July 12, 1992)
- Andruw Jones, CF (Sept. 25, 2002)
- Chipper Jones, 3B (Aug. 14, 2006)
- Mark Teixeira, 1B (June 22, 2008)
- Matt Kemp, LF (April 29, 2017)
- Marcell Ozuna, DH (Sept. 1, 2020)
- Adam Duvall, RF (Sept. 2, 2020)
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