Four Home Runs in a GameThe above include up to the end of the 2004 season.
Player (Team) Date vs. Team
Iwamoto Yoshiyuki (Shochiku) 1951.08.01 vs. Hanshin
Oh Sadaharu (Giants) 1964.05.03 vs. Hanshin
Tony Solaita (Nippon Ham) 1980.04.20 vs. Nankai (Game 2)
Nigel Wilson (Nippon Ham) 1997.06.21 vs. Kintetsu
Furuta Atsuya (Yakult) 2003.06.28 vs. Hiroshima
Players with Three or More Home Runs in a GameAll of the above are through the end of the 2004 season.
Player (Last Team) Times Player (Last Team) Times
Ralph Bryant (Kintetsu) 8 Gene Martin (Taiyo) 3
Oh Sadaharu (Giants) 5 Tashiro Tomio (Taiyo) 3
Aota Noboru (Hankyu) 5 Tony Solaita (Nippon Ham) 3
Nomura Katsuya (Nankai) 4 Yazawa Kenichi (Chunichi) 3
Etoh Shinichi (Lotte) 4 Leron Lee (Lotte) 3
Leon Lee (Yakult) 4 Uno Masaru (Chunichi) 3
Ochiai Hiromitsu (Nippon Ham) 4 Etoh Akira (Giants) 3
Kawakami Tetsuharu (Giants) 3 Nigel Wilson (Kintetsu) 3
Morishita Shigeyoshi (Kintetsu) 3 Nakamura Norihiro (Kintetsu) 3
Tabuchi Koichi (Seibu) 3 Kiyohara Kazuhiro (Giants) 3
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