Home Runs by Pitchers Off Each Other in the Same Game

The modern Major League pitcher is simply not expected to hit the long ball and in the American League there is virtually no chance of it ever occurring again. When they do go deep, it almost comes as an unexpected surprise — even too the pitcher himself. There have, however, actually been instances in major league history where both opposing pitchers in a game hit a home run off their opposition and we are pleased to provide you with a comprehensive list of this unique & fabulous baseball feat.

"I faced him (John Clarkson) in scores of games and I can truthfully say that never in all that time did I get a pitch that came where I expected it or in the way in which I guessed it was coming." - Sam Thompson (Source: National Baseball Hall of Fame Clarkson Web Page)

Home Runs by Pitchers Off Each Other in the Same Game

In Chronological Order

Pitcher Team / Roster Pitcher Team / Roster Date / Box

Frank Mountain

Worcester

Jim McCormick

Cleveland

08-19-1882

Pud Galvin

Pittsburgh

John Clarkson

Chicago

05-07-1887

Stump Wiedman

Detroit

Jimmy Ryan

Chicago

05-13-1887

John Healy

Indianapolis

Mark Baldwin

Chicago

06-13-1887

Pete Conway

Detroit

John Clarkson

Chicago

07-26-1887

Pink Hawley

St. Louis

Ben Sanders

Louisville

10-12-1892

Tom Parrott

Cincinnati

Bill Hutchison

Chicago

04-20-1894

Case Patten

Washington

Clark Griffith

Chicago

08-20-1901

Milt Gaston

St. Louis

Ted Blankenship

Chicago

04-18-1927

Cliff Chambers

Pittsburgh

Ralph Branca

Brooklyn

06-08-1950

Don Larsen

New York

Dick Brodowski

Boston

08-16-1955

Pedro Ramos

Minnesota

Eli Grba

Los Angeles

05-12-1961

Buster Narum

Washington

Earl Wilson

Boston

04-14-1965

Ray Sadecki

San Francisco

Tony Cloninger

Atlanta

07-03-1966

Kevin Gross

Montreal

Fernando Valenzuela

Los Angeles

05-14-1990

Marvin Freeman

Colorado

Kevin Foster

Chicago

05-23-1995

Denny Stark

Colorado

Kevin Millwood

Atlanta

05-18-2002

Pitcher Team / Roster Pitcher Team / Roster Date / Box

HR by Pitchers Off Each Other in the Same Game

 


When John Clarkson joined the "club" in May 1887 he became the first of many from Chicago to do so. Two months later he became the first and only pitcher in history to do it twice in a season and remains the only pitcher to do it twice over the course of a Major League career.

Did you know that the July 3, 1966 game is actually quite legendary as the home run hit by Cloninger versus Sadecki was a grand slam in the fourth inning AND Tony had already hit a grand slam during the first inning versus Bob Priddy?

The 1887 Chicago White Stockings only had four full time pitchers on their roster and Jimmy Ryan, who apears above on 05-13-1887, was not one of them — he was a starting outfielder who had one-hundred twenty games in the field in 1887, three more at second, and eight on the mound.