A few days ago, while thinking about the awesome-ness of grand slams in baseball, I wondered if a player had ever hit two in a single game. A quick search pulled up an entire Wikipedia page devoted to the topic:
List of Major League Baseball hitters with two grand slams in one game
Here are a few highlights:
- 13 players have accomplished the feat.
- No one has ever hit more than two in a game.
- A St. Louis player hit two grand slams in the same inning! ('99, Fernando Tatis). He set a record for most RBIs in an inning (8).
- One pitcher has done it. He only hit two grand slams in his career, and they happened in the same game.
- One player hit grand slams on consecutive pitches, in the 5th and 6th innings.
- One player hit an additional home run in the game, finishing with 11 RBIs, an American League record.
- One player hit his grand slams from both sides of the plate.
The website baseball-almanac.com points out that this feat is really a team effort:
"One man may end up with all the glory (and RBIs), but without his teammates getting on, he just has two solo home runs."