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This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory (a conventional home run) or by an inside-the-park home run. Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007.
Hank Greenberg, Hall of Famer and 4-time home run champion Harmon Killebrew led the league in home runs six times for the Minnesota Twins franchise, once while the team was in Washington and five times in Minnesota. Ken Griffey Jr. led the American League in home runs in four seasons during the 1990s, including three consecutively from 1997 to ...
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.
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 home run Tommy Brown: 17 years, 257 days old [8] Most runs batted in: Hank Aaron: 2,297 [9] Most hits: Pete Rose: 4,256 [10] Most runs scored: Rickey Henderson: 2,295 [11] Highest on-base percentage: Ted Williams ...
The 1978 American League East tie-breaker game was a one-game extension to Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1978 regular season.The game was played at Fenway Park in Boston on the afternoon of Monday, October 2 between the rival New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox to determine the winner of the American League's (AL) East Division.
Indeed, in the Dodgers’ 7-5 win in the opening game of this year’s National League Division Series, Ohtani’s three-run homer in the second inning did more than erase the club’s early three ...
TONY VLACHOS: Oh, man — he's such a sellout, that dude. I don't know what his problem is, man. ... “We could run this castle.” And that wasn't the case with them. They weren't feeling the ...
Later in the inning, with a runner on and one out, the Pittsburgh crowd roared but then exhaled when the slap-hitting veteran Ozzie Smith nearly hit another home run off the Big Unit – missing the left field foul pole by a few feet. It all appeared to unravel for the NL in the 7th, clinging to their now slim one-run lead.