The Art of Losing a Four Homer Game
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2024
- Hitting four home runs in a single game is one of the rarest and most difficult hitting achievements in baseball. It has only occurred 18 times, often by some of the greatest sluggers of all time. Despite the immense runs four home runs create, there has been a notable game where a player hit 4 homers, only for his team to lose.
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This game was pre-empted by TBS to air the Goodwill games and played later that night. I amazed my friend by calling each of his 4 HRs.
I was in the right field General Admission seats ($4 back then). My brother had to leave before the 9th to go to work. Incidentally, Horner broke his bat on the last HR. It's on display at Truist Park with other Braves memorabilia.
"You never have enough runs or enough money."
--Bob Horner
That's a game that sums up the braves in the 80s. Have a few talented players but never could do anything.
Dale Murphy should be in the hall though. Top 5 player in the 80s.
@@chrissadowski253 right. Stieb doesn't get in but Jack Morris does?? The HOF voters are very inconsistent. Kenny lofton, Don mattingly out.. Harold Baines in??
@sethtate2079 Dave Steib did not have the longevity that Morris had. Jack Morris had 110 Wins after age 32... while Steib had only 37. Injuries limited Steib's career stats and cost him the HOF. Career Wins... Morris- 254, Steib- 176.
@@sethtate2079Never will make sense. Steve Garvey should be in as well.
@@sec9788 absolutely! For some players the bar seems so high, yet for others you just have to be a pretty good player and you sneak in.
Horner, sadly, was often out of shape and injured a lot. By the time he joined the Cardinals in 1988, Bob Horner allowed his weight to balloon and was out of baseball by the summer of that year.
I’m 53yo and as a longtime Braves fan I totally remember this game along with the 85 4th of July game against the Mets. It was tough to be a Braves fan back the in those days.
I'm almost 50 we got wtbs in western Washington west of Seattle I watched both those games you mentioned I loved Dale Murphy
I remember this at the time. Horner, if not for injuries, would have been one of the best sluggers of my life.
Certainly could have hit a couple hundred more home runs if not for injuries and the owner collusion scandal. He had over 130 home runs through his age 24 season!
Bob Horner…wow…haven’t thought of that name in 40yrs.
For those that don’t know, Horner and Dale Murphy were two of the biggest bats that ever played in MLB history and were in that Braves line up. Injuries caught up to both unfortunately so few remember them, but they were legit as they come…
Horner was my favorite player off that team. Of course everyone liked Murphy
That was Al Newman's first and only MLB home run.
He, of course, was later traded to the Twins and won 2 World Series rings.
.946 OPS in eight WS plate appearances
HONK IF YOU'RE HORNER
On July 31, 1954, Joe Adcock of the Milwaukee Braves accomplished the rare feat of homering four times in a game, against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field, also hitting a double off the top of the wall to set a record for most total bases in a game (18)[4][5] which stood for 48 years, until broken by Shawn Green in 2002.[6] Of note, the four home runs were hit off four different Brooklyn Dodgers pitchers, becoming the seventh player in major league history to hit four home runs in one game.[7]
My first braves game 1982 against the Padres and watched Horner hit a long bomb. The next day on TBS watched 24 ejections and some wild fights.
That must've been a fun first impression. Real nice you also saw Horner play.
@@walkoffstudiosHorner was on the IR and had a broken wrist in a cast that game against the Padres and did not play.
I wonder what Braves fans in the mid '80s though was a more memorable? Bob Horner's four home run game on July 6th, 1986. Or the 19 inning game between the Braves and Mets on July 4th-5th, 1985 where Braves reliever Rick Camp, who entered that game with a .062 batting average, hits a game tying solo home run in the bottom of the 18th.
Exactly. I was 9-10 when both those games happened and I clearly remember the day both of them were played. Where almost 40 years goes amazes me. I also remember Horner going to Japan and returns with St. Louis in ‘88 and being something of a disaster
I'd wager the 19 inning game just because we've seen 4 homer games before but there will never be another Rick camp game
The Rick Camp game.
So weird you brought up the july 4th game. I grew up a Yankees fan but our neighbors offered us feee tickets to that game. We didn’t go but I definitely remember it was the July 4th game!😂
@@yankees29 wasn’t that game in Atlanta?
There's only been one 7 Sack game in NFL history and it came in a losing effort, that is WILD......
If Horner had less injuries he might have been a hall of famer. Never had a full healthy season and still had 215 home runs by age 28 in under 1000 games. Even his one year in Japan he missed like 30 games. Then more injuries forced his retirement after his return to the majors. Couldn't field his way out of a paper bag though.
For the record, the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966, so in the late 50s they were still in Milwaukee
3 of Horner's 4 dingers were solo shots....no wonder they lost. Fyi, Horner may be the all-time king of the solo shot....outside of Dale Murphy, there weren't a lot of other guys getting on base in that era of the Bravos.
The only Braves game I ever attended. Awesome. Still love the blue Braves uniforms.
Horner had the build of a beer league softball player.
The Braves pitching staff was a dumpster fire in 1986, much like a lot of those mid to late 80s years.
Horner had the Laziest stiffest Stance at the plate...For one of the Greatest Power Hitter of his era.
1:15 Wait a second. Now I'm going to need a video on why Mike Scott is wearing an adjustable cap. ...That's the Astrodome, so it's not a Spring Training game. What's he doing with a snap back?
ruclips.net/video/dAY0iU3lXWw/видео.html This is the game in question
I remember being at that game as akid
Loved the Expos ⚾️
Remember watching Horner do this live on TBS as a teenager in 86.’
I do, too. I was 14.
Those plexiglass fences was dangerous. It cost Dale Murphy his consecutive games streak.
78 to 88 is an 11 year career. I know, math is hard.
He didn't play in 1987, so it was 11 seasons in that stretch
Both of you could be right. Do people consider the Yakult Swallows a “major league” franchise?…☺️
There's a reason why the TV series was called "Eight is Enough" rather than "Four is Enough."
Cammilio carron hit a game winning triple. The score board fired up. The only hit in white sox history.
Another great story. Sucks that the MLB lost the Expos. Like the Houston Oilers of the NFL, the Expos had great uniforms, but were sabotaged by hideous ownership.
Fully convinced that had the Expos won the division in 1989, they wouldn't have relocated so soon. Charles Bronfman went all in that season but they came up just short. Sold them a couple years later.
Bob Horner was the man
That Horner’s last productive MLB season. He played in Japan the next year due to collusion then played about a 1/3 of the 1988 season with the Cardinals and floundered.
BobHorner...............a legend
Forgot Alfred E Nueman played for da Expos back in 86..What ...Me Worry ???
Stan Musial hit 4 home runs consecutive but I think it was in a double game event and I heard it on radio
I remember Tim Wakefield giving up SIX HOMERS to Detroit, and they still won the game.
ruclips.net/video/aeBxnWyyumY/видео.html&pp=ygUVYXVndXN0IDggMjAwNCByZWQgc294
Did I hear the narrator say, at around 1:12 mark, "in an 8 to 9 loss?" The correct way to say that would be a "in a 9 to 8 loss." Always put the highest number first.
We would know the Reds had 8 runs if I said the "Reds lost 9-8 to the Braves." We would know the Reds have 9 runs if I say the "Reds win 9-8." Always put the highest number first.
I saw this live as a kid 👍🏻
A little correct to you post…technically in those years there was only 1 round the ALCS Or NLCS then the World Series from1969 on..but before that it was just the World Series. It’s not like there was a Wild Card…
you had to when your division…
So a draught that long is way different compared to the Mariners playoff drought of the 2000’s
Just adding more context for the people.
That is true, perhaps I should have gone by record. The Braves were a consistent mid 80s win team during the 1960s, but had the second fewest amount of wins of any NL team from 1970-1985.
@@walkoffstudios totally agree with that Statement…
Now do a video on Greg The Bull Luzinski. Horner and Greg...cut from the same cloth.
Super underrated player, would be a good idea to cover him one day
One thing I've learned about Baseball is that She is a cruel Mistress.
Bob Horner is the only ATLANTA Brave to hit 4 home runs in a game. Joe Adcock also hit 4 home runs for the MILWAUKEE Braves in 1954
That gaffe is on me 🤦♂
What a shock....RERUN Gregg blows a call. This time, it went in the Braves' favor. Eleven years later, Gregg would give the Braves the big FUCK YOU in Miami (Gardens).
I still have Bob Horner's rookie card.
Didn’t that happen when Josh Hamilton in a game where he hit 4 homer in a game ?
How come 1959 till 1986 seems like a much bigger period of time then from 1986 until now???
One of the worst teams in that era, I could sit anywhere I wanted with a general admission ticket
Bob Horner could legit mash
Curious to know how many total bases Mitch Webster
He had 9
Dave Nicholson hit a cheap baseball totally out of a old-school comisky ball park. Ala the most strike outs.
ask my mlb the show character about twice a week
I don't think they were called the Phillies back then but I might be wrong?
They've been known as the Phillies ever since 1886, according to baseball reference
Praise Da Lord..Andres Gallaragha..Thee Big Cat !!
horner was not the only brave to hit four hrs joe adcock did so for milwaukee
Steve Carlton struck out NINETEEN batters, and LOST!!!
Carlton won 27 games in 1972, on a team that only won 59! Also a little known fact, he and I also share the same high school and college alma mater.
He did not lose..the team did
The first round lol
Loserville can pull anything off.
" swept in the first round " there were only 2 rounds......
Ain't that some shit?
Well, your team's pitching sucks too, it doesn't seem that big a deal.
An 8-9 loss?
Didn't have to do a 12 minute video, he hit 4 bombs, lost, 34 seconds
High school voice. I can't take it. I'm out!
That's Old Skool
The Braves quite literally sucked from 83 till 89.
Well not literally, it is figuratively.
Weird, I have no memory of the Braves wearing blue. Maybe just a sign of their irrelevance during my childhood.
Bro just use your normal speaking voice
This was hard to listen to. I hate to say this, but you need to … muffle or soften or put some bass in your voice. It was super aired and nasally. 😬
Dale Murphy grounded into a DP right before Horner’s final AB: his second GIDP of the game. Murphy was a player who, unfortunately, would put up terrific numbers in the early innings - but he was awful in the clutch.
dude, why can't you pronounce hit?
Good grief, can you try any harder to sound annoying and throw obscure stats at us?
Bro, no offense... and this would be the only time ever to say this... I think you should have used an AI voice, man. Your voice is too high-pitched.
Legend has it that his balls has recently dropped
For Christ's sake, get to the main action that you advertised. Your username, "WalkoffStudios" is going to be added to my list of, " Don't watch. It's a waste of time." That list is long. And the way RUclips operates now-a-days, that list is getting longer. Forget the baseball history narration. I wanted to see only Bob Horner. When he hits each homer. That's it! Forget it, I'm out of here.
Yeah, but it was also Horner's 2 momentum-changing fielding errors that helped the Expos more than anything else.
BOB HORNY SHOULD'VE BEEN ON THE SHOW "MY 600 LBS. LIFE"