Lead-Off AND Walk-Off Home Run In Same Game By The Same Player

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MLB Players Who Hit a Lead-Off AND Walk-Off Homer in the Same Game

Every player in Major League history who has hit both a lead-off and walk-off home run during the same game appears below in this exclusive Baseball Almanac research list.

Lead-off home runs, not really rare. Walk-off home runs, not really rare. Players who have hit several of both types during their Major League career, not really rare either, but as you can see below, those with both types in the same game, are truly rare!

Baseball Almanac lists below every player in baseball history who has hit both a lead-off home run and walk-off home run in the same game.

"The rare sellout crowd came to see Luis Gonzalez, screamed as the veil pulled back on his No. 20 and replays of his most famous hit played on the video screen at least a dozen times during the game. Chris Young gave them something else to remember: a highlight of his own. Actually, two of them. Young started and ended the game with homers, bookend shots that gave the Arizona Diamondbacks a too-good-to-be-true 6-5 win over the backsliding San Diego Padres on Saturday night. 'It was the perfect script,' Young said after becoming the fourth player in 40 years to lead off and end a game with a homer." - USA Today. Chris Young's bookend homers lead D'backs over first-place Padres. 8 August 2010.

Lead-Off AND Walk Off Home Run in Same Game by Same Player American League Players with a Lead-Off & Walk Off Homer in Same Game
AL #	ML #	A.L. Players (HRs)	Bats	Age	Pos	Team	Box Score	Inn	RBI	Career HRS
										HR#	LO	WO
1.	2.	Vic Power (126)	R	29.187	1B	Kansas City Athletics	05-07-1957	1	1	42	6	3
								10	1	43
2.	3.	Darin Erstad (124)	L	26.021	DH	Anaheim Angels	06-25-2000	1	1	67	12	3
								11	1	68
3.	4.	Reed Johnson (65)	R	26.189	RF	Toronto Blue Jays	06-15-2003	1	1	5	8	3
								10	1	6
4.	5.	Ian Kinsler (257)	R	27.027	2B	Texas Rangers	07-19-2009	1	1	73	48	3
								12	2	74
AL #	ML #	A.L. Players (HRs)	Bats	Age	Pos	Team	Box Score	Inn	RBI	Career HRs
										HR#	LO	WO
Lead-Off AND Walk Off Home Run in Same Game by Same Player National League Players with a Lead-Off & Walk Off Homer in Same Game
NL #	ML #	N.L. Players (HRs)	Bats	Age	Pos	Team	Box Score	Inn	RBI	Career HRs
										HR#	LO	WO
1.	1.	Billy Hamilton (50)	L	27.091	LF	Philadelphia Phillies	05-17-1893	1	1	11	4	2
								10	1	12
2.	6.	Chris Young (191)	R	26.336	CF	Arizona Diamondbacks	08-07-2010	1	1	89	14	6
								9	1	90
NL #	ML #	N.L. Players (HRs)	Bats	Age	Pos	Team	Box Score	Inn	RBI	Career HRs
										HR#	LO	WO
Lead-off AND Walk-off Home Run in the Same Game by the Same Player | Research by Baseball Almanac

There have been only six instances of a player hitting BOTH a lead-off and walk-off home run in the same. Six different ball players are in this elite home run club — not one player in Major League history has ever done this twice!

SABR historian David Vincent (RIP) once helped us with some research confirming that Billy Hamilton was the first to do this feat. Baseball historian Phil Labat used newspaper box scores to create a superb spreadsheet, that was shared with Baseball Almanac.

Did you know that Billy Hamilton never again hit two home runs — of any type — during the same game across his Major League career? By comparison, Reed Johnson had three career 2-homer games, Vic Power had five, Darin Erstad had seven, Ian Kinsler has thirteen, and Chris Young has fifteen.

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