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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.
List of Major League Baseball All-Star Game records; List of Major League Baseball attendance records; List of Major League Baseball postseason records. List of World Series career records; List of World Series single-game records; List of World Series single-series records
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
That is a 514-foot blast, certainly long enough to get him on the top-10 longest home runs of all-time list. However, since this didn't happen in the Majors, it doesn't count.
July 18: Most career home runs – 139 by Babe Ruth; ended his career in 1935 with 714. Ruth's passing of Roger Connor for the career home-run record was not recognized at the time. Connor's career total of 138 was not accurately documented until the 1970s; at one time, he was thought to have hit only 131.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league wins the home run title each season by hitting the most home runs that year. [2] Only home runs hit in a particular league count towards that league's seasonal lead. Mark McGwire, for example, hit 58 home runs in 1997, more than any other player that year.
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).
Most Games Won: 100 (2008) Most Games Lost: 99 (2024) Highest Winning Percentage: .617 (2008) Lowest Winning Percentage: .389 (2024) Longest Winning Streak: 11 games (June 16–June 26, 1964) Longest Losing Streak: 14 games (May 25, 2022–June 8, 2022) Home Runs: 236 (2000) Runs Batted In: 837 (2000) Team Batting Average: .282 (1979, 2002, 2004)