Johnny Damon
Major League Baseball instituted a new policy this year, giving the home-field advantage in the World Series to the team from the league that won that year's All-Star Game. The American League won the 2004 All-Star Game, so the AL's World Series representative--Boston--gets the home-field advantage.
Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.
Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series. He also hit five overall homers in that Series.
No pitcher has ever hit 2 home runs in one World Series game. Bob Gibson and Dave McNally are the only two pitchers to have hit 2 home runs in their World Series careers.
home of the all star game winner
In the 2008 World Series, Ryan Howard hit two home runs in game 4. Howard had a total of three home runs for the series. Chase Utley also hit two home runs, one in game 1 and one in game 3.
Joe Carter hit the game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 to win the 1993 World Series.
In Game 1 of the 1996 World Series, rookie Andruw Jones of the Atlanta Braves hit home runs in his first two at bats.
The most home runs hit by one player in a playoff game is three and has been done by 6 players ... Babe Ruth of the Yankees did it twice (Game 4 of the 1926 World Series and Game 4 of the 1928 World Series), Bob Robertson of the Pirates (Game 2 of the 1971 NLCS), Reggie Jackson of the Yankees (Game 6 of the 1977 World Series), George Brett of the Royals (Game 3 of the 1978 ALCS), Adam Kennedy of the Angels (Game 5 of the 2002 ALCS), and Adrian Beltre of the Rangers (Game 4 of the 2011 ALDS).
Rangers. Yesterday.
The only other player to hit three home runs in a World Series game was Babe Ruth, who did it twice.
That was George Shuba of the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 1 of the 1953 World Series.