Brady Counsell of Kansas grew up watching his father achieve amazing things on major league fields.

Craig Counsell was never involved in anything like his kid was on Wednesday.

The younger Counsell blasted the third of five consecutive home runs for Kansas, propelling the Jayhawks to a 29-1 victory over Minnesota in a game trimmed to seven innings. The run of home runs in Minneapolis matched an NCAA record achieved three years prior, most recently in 2006 when South Carolina accomplished the feat against Georgia.

No major league club has ever hit five consecutive home runs.

“I’ve never been a part of anything like that,” Brady Counsell explained. “I suppose I didn’t realize we had three until [Brady] Ballinger went deep, which made it four. We were like, “Oh my gosh.” “What is going on?”

Then Jackson Hauge went deep for five.

“And it was, ‘Wow! That’s crazy!'” Counsell explained.

Counsell’s father, who now manages the Chicago Cubs, had 42 home runs in 16 seasons and 4,741 big league at-bats.

Kansas’ spree began with Chase Diggins’ three-run blast with no outs in the third inning. Counsell, Ballinger, and Hauge were the next to go deep after Max Soliz Jr. The Jayhawks added eight additional runs in the fifth inning to win by a landslide, breaking the school record most runs against a Division I opponent on the road.

Kansas also set a Division I victory margin record.

“I’ve never seen that,” said Dan Fitzgerald, the Jayhawks’ college baseball coach of nearly 25 years. “We hit three in a row earlier in the year, and of course been a part of some of those, but never five in a row. It was awesome, and I appreciate how involved our guys were today. I thought our approach at the bat was great.”

The first college team to hit five consecutive homers was Centenary, which did it against Stephen F. Austin in the first inning of a game in 1992. Eastern Illinois repeated the feat in the fifth inning against Morehead State in 1998.

“I actually didn’t know we had four when I went up to the plate because they made a pitching change,” said Hauge, who actually had two homers in the game. “It was Diggins, Soliz and then a pitching change. I was just going up there thinking, ‘This would be awesome to go back-to-back-to-back. When I got back in the dugout they yelled, ‘Five!’ So it was really cool.”

The record for consecutive homers in a big league game is four, which has happened 11 times.

Kansas is 15-2 heading into its Big 12 opener Friday against Baylor.

“The five home runs in a row? That was fun to be on the right side of it,” Fitzgerald said

 

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