{"id":206897,"date":"2025-07-27T18:38:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/206897\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T18:38:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T18:38:37","slug":"athletics-nick-kurtz-is-youngest-player-in-mlb-history-to-hit-4-home-runs-in-one-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/206897\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics&#8217; Nick Kurtz is youngest player in MLB history to hit 4 home runs in one game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are really no words.<\/p>\n<p>Athletics rookie Nick Kurtz came to the plate six times on Friday night in Houston. He singled. He doubled. And he homered four times.<\/p>\n<p>A 6-for-6 night with four home runs, six runs scored and eight RBI. Astounding. Incredible. Practically perfection.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz became the youngest player in MLB history to hit four homers in a game, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jayhaykid\/status\/1948940159975612706\" rel=\"nofollow\">per @JayHayKid<\/a>, at 22 years old.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also just the 20th 4-HR game in MLB history, and the first in Athletics history.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s just the second six-hit, four-homer game in league history, joining Shawn Green.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">THE 20TH FOUR-HOMER GAME IN MLB HISTORY BELONGS TO NICK KURTZ! <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZQAnLE3fRy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZQAnLE3fRy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1948939940554772607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a onclick=\"dataLayer.push({event: &#039;element_click&#039;,item_type: &#039;affiliate link&#039;,item_id: &#039;https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\/news\/mets-edwin-diaz-best-pitcher-mlb-trainers-legs-different-lengths\/68d9150c640b0dfaffa84938&#039;,item_name: &#039;Edwin Diaz is MLB&#039;s best pitcher since learning his legs were different lengths&#039;,cta_type: &#039;contextual_link&#039;,cta_id: &#039;&#039;});\" target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/mlb\/new-york-mets\/news\/mets-edwin-diaz-best-pitcher-mlb-trainers-legs-different-lengths\/68d9150c640b0dfaffa84938\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Edwin Diaz is MLB&#8217;s best pitcher since learning his legs were different lengths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kurtz joins Eugenio Suarez as the second player to hit four homers in a game this season.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s rookie has been on an absolute tear since his call-up.<\/p>\n<p>He actually stands alone in second place for most extra-base hits by a player in his first 66 MLB games. Kurtz has an astonishing 43 of those now, trailing only Joe DiMaggio (48).<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz may play for a long time, but he likely won&#8217;t ever do again what he did on Friday night in Houston. What a special night for the game of baseball.<\/p>\n<p>MORE MLB NEWS:<\/p>\n<p>                        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are really no words. Athletics rookie Nick Kurtz came to the plate six times on Friday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,5,4,3226],"class_list":{"0":"post-206897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athletics","8":"tag-athletics","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-mlb-athletics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114926656364234705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}