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Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714, and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only ...
Mark Whiten tied Jim Bottomley for the most runs batted in in a single game with 12 in his four-homer game. [10] Shawn Green hit a double and a single along with his four home runs for 19 total bases, an MLB record. It surpassed Joe Adcock 's mark of 18, which also came from a four-homer game. [11][12] Carlos Delgado is the only player to make ...
Over the course of his 22-season career, Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs twelve times. [9] Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League. [10][11] Kiner's seven consecutive titles from 1946 to 1952 are also the most ...
Boston Red Sox's Triston Casas, center, celebrates after his solo home run with Vaughn Grissom (5) during the fifth inning of the first game of a baseball doubleheader against the Minnesota Twins ...
Major League Baseball. The Home Run Derby is an annual home run hitting competition in Major League Baseball (MLB) customarily held the day before the MLB All-Star Game, which places the contest on a Monday in July. In the context of the competition a "home run" consists of hitting a baseball in fair territory out of the playing field on the fly.
In today's edition: ... 36 years ago today, José Canseco became the first player in MLB history to hit 40 home runs and steal 40 bases in the same season. ... Canseco blasted 462 home runs (tied ...
Wes Ferrell once held the all-time Major League Baseball record for home runs hit while playing the position of pitcher. He hit 37 as a pitcher. [6] Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Warren Spahn are tied for second with 35 career home runs apiece. [7][8][9] Red Ruffing, Earl Wilson, and Don Drysdale are the only other pitchers to hit at ...
The Home Run Apple is a motorized apple prop in the batter's eye at Citi Field in New York City, New York, United States; which rises whenever the New York Mets hit a home run there. [1] The original, smaller apple was first installed in Shea Stadium in 1980 at the behest of Al Harazin with a replacement being installed at Citi Field upon that ...