High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Writers of Sporting News described hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball (MLB) game as "baseball`s greatest single-game accomplishment". 16 players have accomplished the feat to date, the most recent being Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers on May 8, 2012. No player has done this more than once in his career and no player has ever hit more than four in a game. Bobby Lowe was the first to hit four home runs in a single game, doing so on May 30, 1894. Fans were reportedly so excited that they threw $160 in silver coins ($4,300 today) onto the field after his fourth home run.