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HOUSTON -- The Astros, in their long history, have never had a player hit four homers in a game. Perhaps nobody has come closer, though, than Vinny Castilla, who became one of 12 players in club history to slug three homers a game when he did it on July 28, 2001, at the Pirates.
Castilla hit a solo homer in the second, a three-run homer in the fifth and a solo homer in the eighth, helping Houston to an 8-2 lead it blew in the ninth inning, when Brian Giles hit a walk-off grand slam off Billy Wagner to complete a stunning comeback. It was also Giles that robbed Castilla of what would have been a fourth home run when he made a leaping catch at the wall in the fourth inning.