Furuta ties Japan baseball record with 4 homers

Furuta ties Japan baseball record with 4 homers

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Yakult Swallows catcher Atsuya Furuta matched a Japanese single-game baseball record when he hit four home runs in the game against the Hiroshima Carp on June 28. Furuta hit a pair of solo shots, a two-run and a three-run drive at Hiroshima Stadium to become the fifth player in history following Yoshiyuki Iwamoto (1951), Sadaharu Oh (1964), Tony Solaita (1980) and Nigel Wilson (1997) to accomplish the feat.

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