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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Hit one home run as a pinch hitter. [26] Jack Stivetts: 21 35 Hit 11 home runs while playing various other positions and three as a pinch hitter. [13] Milt Pappas: 20 20 [27] Dizzy Trout: 20 20 [28] Jack Harshman: 19 21 Hit two home runs as a first baseman. [29] Madison Bumgarner 19 19 [30] Cy Young † 18 18 [31] Schoolboy Rowe: 16 18
Josh Gibson 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. Record.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920. By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single season, breaking his own record of 29 ...
List of Major League Baseball single-inning home run leaders. Willie McCovey (left), Andre Dawson (center), and Alex Rodriguez (right) are three of the only five players to hit two home runs in one inning on two separate occasions. In baseball, a home run is credited to a batter when he hits a fair ball and reaches home safely on the same play ...