last player to hit 5 home runs in a game
List of Major League Baseball single-game home run leaders
Writers of Sporting News described hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball ( MLB ) game as `` baseball 's greatest single - game accomplishment '' . Eighteen players have accomplished the feat to date , the most recent being J.D. Martinez of the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 4 , 2017 against the Los Angeles Dodgers . 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 ( $4,400 today ) onto the field after his fourth home run . 
Writers of Sporting News described hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball ( MLB ) game as `` baseball 's greatest single - game accomplishment '' . Eighteen players have accomplished the feat to date , the most recent being J.D. Martinez of the Arizona Diamondbacks on September 4 , 2017 against the Los Angeles Dodgers . 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 ( $4,400 today ) onto the field after his fourth home run .
No player has ever hit more than four home runs in a game.
Writers of Sporting News described hitting four home runs in a single Major League Baseball ( MLB ) game as `` baseball 's greatest single - game accomplishment '' . No player has done this more than once in his career and no player has ever hit more than four in a game .