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Barry Bonds holds the record for most career home runs, hitting 762 over his 22-year career. 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).
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.
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.482 [12] Most stolen bases ...
Barry Bonds, the all-time career home run leader in Major League Baseball, led the league in home runs twice including in 2001 when he set the record single-season mark. In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit so far that the batter is able to circle all the bases ending at home plate, scoring himself plus any runners already on base, with no errors by the defensive team on the ...
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 ...
Most home runs by a pitcher in a career, and their career total including home runs at other positions Player Home runs Career total Notes Ref Wes Ferrell: 37 38 Hit one home run as a pinch hitter. [17] Bob Lemon † 35 37 Hit two home runs as a pinch hitter. [8] Warren Spahn † 35 35 [9] Red Ruffing † 34 36 Hit two home runs as a pinch ...
Highlights of this record include a slash line of .366/.437/.696 through 941 plate appearances from 1933 to 1936; a .417 average and 40 home runs in 39 games in 1937; regular batting averages well over .300 for the final four seasons of his career (including a record .466 average in 1943) despite battling severe headaches due to a brain tumor ...
Highest team slugging average: .436 in 1977; Highest team on-base percentage: .348 in 1999; Total Hits: 1,644 in 2000; Extra-base hits: 522 in 1977; Hits in a game: 26 vs. Detroit on September 9, 2004 (first game) Longest individual hitting streak: 31, Whit Merrifield 2018-19; Most .300 hitters in a single season: 4 in 2000; Home runs: 168 in 1987