fernando tatis hit 2 grand slams off of chan ho park.
who did fernando tatis hit 2 grand slams off of?
chan ho park
the only major league player to hit two grand slams in one inning is fernando tatís of the st. louis cardinals, in . both grand slams coming off los angeles dodgers' pitcher chan ho park in the third inning. tatis was only the second national league player to hit two grand slams in one game, joining cloninger. park was only the second pitcher in major league history to give up two grand slams in one inning, joining bill phillips of the pittsburgh pirates, who did it in , one to tom burns and one to malachi kittridge. therefore, park was the first to give up both to the same batter. tatis had never hit a grand slam before in his career. bill mueller is the only player to hit grand slams from both sides of the plate in the same game, when he hit 2 in for the boston red sox against the texas rangers. robin ventura is the only player to hit a grand slam in both games of a doubleheader, when he did so in for the new york mets against the milwaukee brewers.
grand slam (baseball)
northrup also hit five grand slams during the 1968 season, four in the regular season. the first came in may. then, on june 24, 1968, northrup hit grand slams on consecutive pitches in consecutive at bats in the 5th and 6th innings. this made him one of only 13 players (through july 28, 2009) to have hit 2 grand slams in one game, and the second to do so in consecutive at-bats (the first was jim gentile in 1961). five days later, northrup hit another grand slam, becoming the first major league player to hit three grand slams in a single week. (larry parrish later accomplished the feat in 1982.) northrup's fifth grand slam came in game 6 of the 1968 world series, fueling a 13-1 blowout win for detroit.
jim northrup (baseball)