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Print | Comments () Posted by Adam Kilgore, Globe Staff March 23, 2009 03:08 PM

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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Read this carefully so you can keep track: The Red Sox just hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning.

That's four straight, by Mike Lowell, Jason Bay, Chris Carter, and Ivan Ochoa. All of them went to left, where the wind is blowing out; Carter's was an opposite field blast. Poor Dusty Brown followed them, popped to first, and got booed.

Lowell now has home runs in consecutive days. Ochoa has one home run in 120 career at-bats in the regular season. All of the homers came off Brandon Lyon, a former Red Sox reliever.

The Red Sox have hit four consecutive home runs in the regular once before, on April 22, 2007 at Fenway Park against the Yankees, all off of Chase Wright. In baseball history in the regular season, only two pitches have ever given up four straight home runs.