Box Score of Four Home Run Game by Gil Hodges

Gil Hodges joined the four home runs club in style when he launched four home runs off four different pitchers and finished the game with a nine runs batted in.

"There are only two kinds of managers. Winning manager and ex-managers." - Gil Hodges
4 Home Runs in 1 Game
by Gil Hodges

Gil Hodges

August 31, 1950 at Ebbets Field

Hitting & Fielding Notes

Boston Braves
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Roy Hartsfield 2b 5 0 1 0
Sam Jethroe cf 5 0 0 0
Earl Torgeson 1b 4 1 1 0
Bob Elliott 3b 3 0 1 0
Walker Cooper c 3 0 0 0
   Del Crandall c 1 1 0 0
Sid Gordon lf 4 1 3 2
Willard Marshall rf 4 0 2 1
Buddy Kerr ss 3 0 0 0
Warren Spahn p 1 0 0 0
   Normie Roy p 0 0 0 0
   Mickey Haefner p 0 0 0 0
   a-Pete Reiser ph 1 0 0 0
   Bob Hall p 0 0 0 0
   Johnny Antonelli p 1 0 0 0
   b-Tommy Holmes ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 8 3

 

Brooklyn Dodgers
Name Pos AB R H RBI
Tommy Brown lf 5 0 1 2
Pee Wee Reese ss 5 1 2 3
Duke Snider cf 5 1 1 3
Jackie Robinson 2b 5 1 1 0
   Bobby Morgan 3b 0 0 0 0
Carl Furillo rf 5 4 2 0
Gil Hodges 1b 6 5 5 9
Roy Campanella c 4 2 2 0
   Bruce Edwards c 1 1 1 0
Billy Cox 3b-2b 5 3 2 0
Carl Erskine p 5 1 4 0
Totals 46 19 21 17

a: Struck out for Haefner in 5th inning.
b
: Lined out for Antonelli in 9th inning.

Doubles: Reese, Edwards, Marshall 2.
Errors: Hartsfield 3, Crandall, Reese.
Home Runs: Hodges 4, Gordon, Snider.
Left on Base: Boston 9, Brooklyn 12.
Sacrifice Hit: Cox.

Line Score
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E

Boston

0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 3 8 4

Brooklyn

0 3 7 0 0 4 3 2 x 19 21 1
Pitching Notes

Boston Braves
Name IP H R ER BB SO
1-Warren Spahn 2.0 7 5 5 1 2
   Normie Roy 0.1 3 3 3 0 0
   Mickey Haefner 1.2 1 2 2 1 0
   Bob Hall 1.2 6 4 4 3 1
   Johnny Antonelli 2.1 4 5 4 2 2

 

Brooklyn Dodgers
Name IP H R ER BB SO
Carl Erskine 9.0 8 3 3 2 6

1: Spahn pitched to two batters in third inning.

Hit by Pitcher: Erskine by Antonelli.
Losing Pitcher: Spahn.
Winning Pitcher: Erskine.

Game Notes
Attendance: 14,226.
Length of Game: 3:03.
Umpires: HP:Jocko Conlan, 1B: Artie Gore, 3B: Bill Stewart.


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