On July 18, 1948, In the first game of a doubleheader at Shibe Park, Pat Seerey, chunky White Sox left fielder, hits four home runs, the last in the 11th inning, to lead Chicago to a 12 – 11 victory over the Athletics in Philadelphia. Seerey is the 5th major league player to accomplish the feat and is the only player in major league history to twice reach 15 or more total bases in a game, having totaled 15 bases in 1945. Fat Pat’s first shot is over the LF bleachers’ roof off Carl Scheib, the next two – off Scheib and Bob Savage – are on the roof, and the last, off Lou Brissie, into the upper LF stands. Brissie, the 5th pitcher, is the loser against Howie Judson. The A’s take the second game, 6 – 1, in five innings as Seerey is 0 for 2. On the 24th, Seerey will become the first player to strike out seven times in a doubleheader.
Seerey became only the fifth player in major league history to accomplish the four homer feat. To this day, only a total of 17 players have done it.
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