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Bobby Lowe was the first MLB player to hit four home runs in a single game, doing so in 1894. In baseball, a home run occurs when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team in the process.
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.
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.
Detroit Tigers rookie Colt Keith hit the first home run of his MLB career in Friday's 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Comerica Park.
Justyn-Henry Malloy got his first MLB hit, a solo home run, in the Detroit Tigers' 9-1 loss to the Texas Rangers. Kenta Maeda exited early, though.
First home runs hit in every country where MLB has played. United States: Ross Barnes, May 2, 1876. Barnes was a second baseman/shortstop for the Chicago White Stockings (now the Chicago Cubs ...
A leadoff home run is a home run hit by the first batter of a team, the leadoff hitter of the first inning of the game. In MLB (major league Baseball), Rickey Henderson holds the career record with 81 lead-off home runs.
Shohei Ohtani hit his first home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a solo drive in the seventh inning in a 5-4 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night that finished a three-game sweep.