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Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in major league history to switch-hit home runs in two consecutive games

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On May 9, 1987, At Comiskey Park, 18,000 fans got to see some history as future hall of famer Eddie Murray of the Baltimore Orioles becomes the first player in major league history to switch-hit home runs in two consecutive games. Murray’s latest two-homer game helps the Orioles club the Chicago White Sox, 15-6. The previous game, Murray homered twice in a 7-6 win over the White Sox. Yesterday, Murray took righty Jose DeLeon and lefty Ray Searage deep; today it is Joel McKeon (LHP) and Bob James (RHP).

Also, Larry Sheets, launched the last roof shot home run by an opponent at Old Comiskey Park, Sheets’ blast was the 42nd “roofer” at Old Comiskey Park and came off Sox reliever Bob James. It was also the second Oriole to accomplish this, the other was Boog Powell on July 18, 1966. Sheets is the first left-handed hitter to reach the roof since Baines, Aug. 23, 1985, before the dimensions from home plate in Comiskey were restored to those last cleared by Don Mincher, May 24, 1970

“It never mattered what anyone else said about Eddie because the people in our clubhouse knew,” Sheets said. “He’s the best player there is in the game, and one of the best people. No one in this clubhouse ever doubted him. I feel now that he and {Cal Ripken Jr.} will carry us. All the rest of us have to do is pick up some of the little pieces, because Eddie and Cal are going to do most of it.”

Murray hit a right-handed homer off McKeon in the fourth and a left-handed one off James in the sixth. With a double and a single, he had the 19th four-hit game of his career.

“He’s swinging the bat great,” Manager Cal Ripken Sr. said. “That happens with home run hitters. I said last year when he missed that month that that could have been one of those stretches when he put 10 or 12 homers on the board. We’ve seen this with him before.”

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