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This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most career home runs in regular season play (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play
This is a list of some of the records relating to home runs hit in baseball games played in the Major Leagues.Some Major League records are sufficiently notable to have their own page, for example the single-season home run record, the progression of the lifetime home run record, and the members of the 500 home run club.
Ruth set the Major League Baseball single-season home run record four times, first at 29 (1919), then 54 (1920), 59 (1921), and finally 60 (1927), all in the American League. [12] Ruth's 1920 and 1921 seasons are tied for the widest margin of victory for a home run champion as he topped the next highest total by 35 home runs in each season.
The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger crushed his 176th career homer in the third inning, breaking Hideki Matsui's record for the most home runs hit by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball.
Most triples: Sam Crawford: 309 [3] Most home runs: Barry Bonds: 762 [4] Most grand slams: Alex Rodriguez: 25 Most home runs by a pitcher Wes Ferrell: 37 Most grand slams by a pitcher shared by Madison Bumgarner and Tony Cloninger: 2 [5] [6] Oldest player to hit first home run Bartolo Colón: 42 years, 349 days old [7] Youngest player to hit a ...
The following is a chronology of the top ten leaders in lifetime home runs in Major League Baseball.This includes any home runs hit by a player during official regular season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games) in the National Association (1871–1875), National League (since 1876), the American Association (1882–1891), the Union Association (1884), the Players' League (1890 ...
[3] [4] If, during a play, defensive or fan interference is called, and the awarded bases allow the batter to cross home plate, the batter is credited with a home run. [3] [5] Wes Ferrell holds the all-time Major League Baseball record for home runs hit while playing the position of pitcher. He hit 37 as a pitcher. [6]
The last "bounce" home run in MLB was hit by Al López of the Brooklyn Robins on September 12, 1930, at Ebbets Field. [28] A carryover of the old rule is that if a player deflects a ball over the outfield fence in fair territory without it touching the ground, it is a home run, per MLB rule 5.05(a)(9).