The Yankees recently hit six home runs in one game against the visiting Cubs. I knew that the 1961 Yankees hit seven home runs in one game, so the wheels started turning.
HR: Mickey Mantle 2 (13, 1 off Gene Conley, 1st inn, 2 on, 1 out to Deep CF-RF, 1 off Mike Fornieles, 8th inn, 0 on, 2 outs to Deep CF-RF); Roger Maris 2 (11, 1 off Gene Conley, 3rd inn, 0 on, 1 out to Deep RF, 1 off Mike Fornieles, 8th inn, 2 on, 2 outs to Deep RF); Bill Skowron 2 (8, 1 off Gene Conley, 4th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep LF Line, 1 off Dave Hillman, 6th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep CF-RF); Yogi Berra (6, off Gene Conley, 6th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to Deep CF-RF).
Two each for Mantle, Maris and Skowron. One for Berra. There was a staged photo of the three "consoling" Yogi after the game.
So what was the Yankee record? What was the American League (AL) and National League (NL) record?
https://stathead.com/tiny/Vcx0I
In the Regular Season, from 1901 to 2022, In the AL or NL, requiring Home Runs >= 6, sorted by greatest Home Runs.
Click that link and you'll see all 451 times a team has hit at least six home runs in a game. 31 times at least 8, including the Yankees. But twice teams have hit more than 8:
| Rk | Date | Tm | Opp | Rslt | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | IBB | SO | HBP | SH | SF | ROE | GDP | SB | CS | WPA | RE24 | LOB | # | Attendance | GmLen | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1987-09-14 | TOR | BAL | W 18-3 | 48 | 44 | 18 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.369 | 13.510 | .231 | 6 | 14 | 27,446 | 198 |
| 2 | 1999-09-04 | CIN | PHI | W 22-3 | 56 | 47 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 22 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.456 | 16.808 | .376 | 7 | 16 | 16,357 | 197 |
TEN is the record: Toronto Blue Jays 1987. Twelve years later the Reds hit NINE.
But in looking over the list I noticed that some teams had done it in a doubleheader game, which, of course, leads to the question: what is the team record for home runs in one day?
First I checked the teams that had hit 8 in a doubleheader game, looking at the other game. The 1939 Yankees had hit five in game two, so it was 8+5=13. Two other teams had hit four in the other game: 8+4=12. But to be sure, I pulled almost 1,800 records out of stathead.com for games with at least 5 home runs and put them into a DBMS (database management system). Only certain combinations could even match the 13 by the 1939 Yankees. For instance: 7+6=13. A team would need at least 7 in one game. It was apparent that none of those games of 8 home runs happened twice in the same doubleheader. In fact there were only 115 doubleheader games in which a team hit at least five home runs.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BAL/BAL201904202.shtml
2019: Twins hit 8 in game two. Three in game one. 3+8=11
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/WS2/WS2196308291.shtml
1963: Twins hit 8 in game one. Four in game two. 8+4=12
HR: Bernie Allen (7, off Jim Duckworth, 1st inn, 0 on, 0 outs to CF); Jimmie Hall (27, off Jim Duckworth, 3rd inn, 0 on, 0 outs to RF); Harmon Killebrew (32, off Pete Burnside, 4th inn, 1 on, 1 out to LF); Zoilo Versalles (10, off Pete Burnside, 5th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to LF).
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/PIT/PIT195308301.shtml
1953: Braves hit 8 in game one. Four in game two.
HR: Johnny Logan (9); Eddie Mathews 2 (42); Del Crandall (13); Jim Pendleton 3 (4); Jack Dittmer (7).
Pendleton? Dittmer?
HR: Johnny Logan (10); Eddie Mathews (43); Joe Adcock (15); Sid Gordon (18).
Finally, the champs:
https://www.baseball-
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