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At the time, home runs were rare in baseball, and Ruth's majestic shot awed the crowd. The winning pitcher, Warhop, would in August 1915 conclude a major league career of eight seasons, undistinguished but for being the first major league pitcher to give up a home run to Babe Ruth. [46] Ruth during batting practice with the Boston Red Sox in 1916
1930 (Ruth 49, Gehrig 41) 1931 (Ruth 46, Gehrig 46) Achieved by several other pairs of teammates since. Ruth and Gehrig were the first, and the only to achieve it three times. Clubs with three consecutive home runs in inning: Twice. 4th inning, at Philadelphia Athletics, first game, September 10, 1925 (Bob Meusel, Ruth, Gehrig)
Babe Ruth started his major league career as a pitcher before moving to the outfield. Only 14 of his 714 career home runs were hit as a pitcher, however. [20] The first pitcher to officially hit a home run was Jack Manning, who accomplished the feat on August 3, 1876. [21]
On Opening Day 1974, Hank Aaron hit a three-run shot off the Reds’ Jack Billingham at Riverfront Stadium to tie Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs.
On June 2nd in 1935, Babe Ruth retired after playing 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. He hit the ball so fast and so hard, he was known as "The Sultan of Swat." When Ruth retired, he ...
Babe Ruth hit.625 (10 for 16) as the Yankees outscored their opponents by a combined score of 27–10. As he had done against the Cards in the 1926 Series, Ruth hit three home runs over the right field pavilion in Sportsman's Park in Game 4, the only player to do it in two different World Series through the 2016 season. Unlike 1926, however, it ...
On August 11, 1929 -- 85 years ago today -- George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. became the first baseball player to hit 500 career home runs when he hit the first ball pitched by Willis Hudlin that ...
Babe Ruth: One theory is that the prolific success of Babe Ruth at hitting home runs led players around the league to forsake their old methods of hitting (described above) and adopt a "free-swinging" style designed to hit the ball hard and with an uppercut stroke, with the intention of hitting more home runs. Critics of this theory claim that ...