*2002 | PHOENIX, ARIZONA – The Los Angles Dodgers‘ Shawn Green hit his 8th and 9th home run in a week on this date in 2002 – at the time, a new National League record.
Green hit 4 home runs two days earlier (May 23rd).
Two days before that he hit a pair of home runs.
He hit one on May 24th.
The two he hit against the Arizona Diamondbacks on this date added up to nine for the week.
Shawn Green was born in Des Plaines, Illinois on November 10, 1972. His family later moved to California where he attended Tustin High School in Tustin, California. He received a scholarship to Stanford University in 1991, but was drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays the same year.
He broke into the major leagues with Toronto in 1993 at age 20. At the end of the 2007 season Green had 328 career home runs.
CONTRIBUTING SOURCES:
May 25, 2002 box score/stats
The Associated Press, Phoenix, AZ, May 26, 2002
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