Editing Home run (section)

===Consecutive home runs by one batter===
The record for consecutive home runs by a batter under any circumstances is four. Of the sixteen players (through 2012) who have hit four in one game, six have hit them consecutively. Twenty-eight other batters have hit four consecutive across two games.

Bases on balls do not count as at-bats, and [[Ted Williams]] holds the record for consecutive home runs across the most games, four in four games played, during September 17–22, 1957, for the Red Sox.<ref name="1957redsox">{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=1957&t=BOS|title=1957 Boston Red Sox Schedule|work=[[Baseball Almanac]]|access-date=July 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309041457/http://www.baseball-almanac.com/teamstats/schedule.php?y=1957&t=BOS |archive-date=March 9, 2009 }}</ref> Williams hit a pinch-hit home run on the 17th; walked as a pinch-hitter on the 18th; there was no game on the 19th; hit another pinch-homer on the 20th; homered and then was lifted for a pinch-runner after at least one walk, on the 21st; and homered after at least one walk on the 22nd. All in all, he had four walks interspersed among his four homers.

In [[World Series]] play, [[Reggie Jackson]] hit a record three in one Series game, the final game (Game 6) in 1977. But those three were a part of a much more impressive feat. He walked on four pitches in the second inning of game 6. Then he hit his three home runs on the first pitch of his next three at-bats, off three different pitchers (4th inning: Hooten; 5th inning: Sosa; 8th inning: Hough). He had also hit one in his last at-bat of the previous game, giving him four home runs on four consecutive swings. The four in a row set the record for consecutive homers across two Series games.

In Game 3 of the World Series in 2011, [[Albert Pujols]] hit three home runs to tie the record with Babe Ruth and Reggie Jackson. The St. Louis Cardinals went on to win the World Series in Game 7 at Busch Stadium. In Game 1 of the World Series in 2012, [[Pablo Sandoval]] of the [[San Francisco Giants]] hit three home runs on his first three at-bats of the Series.

[[Nomar Garciaparra]] holds the record for consecutive home runs in the shortest time in terms of innings: three home runs in two innings, on July 23, 2002, for the [[Boston Red Sox]].