There have been 41 post-season major league baseball games, to date, where a team has hit 4+ homeruns in the contest where the game was played in 9 innings or less.  Thanks to Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Post-Season Batting Game Finder, we can see that overall list in a snap.  But, there have only been two games in MLB's post-season history where a team has hit 4+ homers in a game that was played in 9 innings or less and they lost the game:

  Cnt Date       Series G Tm   Opp GmReslt  PA  AB  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS LOB Batrs
+----+-------------+------+-+---+----+-------+---+---+--+--+--+--+--+---+--+---+--+---+--+--+---+---+--+--+---+-----+
    1 2004-10-13 NLCS   1 HOU @STL L  7-10  38  37  7 10  2  0  4   7  1   0  9   0  0  0   0   0  0  0   4    15 
    2 2002-10-20 WS     2 SFG @ANA L 10-11  41  38 10 12  1  0  4  10  3   1  8   0  0  0   0   0  1  0   4     9    

Jeff Kent played in both these games, and hit homeruns in both these contests, for the losing teams. Now, there's a trivia question for ya, right?

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