Home Run Derby

Well, if we always post 3 Home Run Nights for players, we definitely should recognize a more rare achievement, 4 consecutive Home Runs by the White Sox (Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramirez, Juan Uribe).  To give you a bit of scale, a single player has hit 3 Home Runs in a game 480 times.  However, a team has hit 4 consecutive Home Runs in a game only 6 times.

Funny thing is, it happened once the past three seasons (Dodgers in ‘06, Red Sox in ‘07, White Sox in ‘08), but apparently these things come in threes, because the first three occurences took place in a four year span (Braves in ‘61, Indians in ‘63, Twins in ‘64).  Again for scale, 3 Home Run Games occurred 19 times the past three years.

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