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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). In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play
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.
Babe Ruth was first or second in the American League in home runs for every season from 1918 through 1933 except 1922 and set the single-season home run record four times. Jimmie Foxx hit 50 home runs in 1938 but finished second in the league to Hank Greenberg who hit 58 that year. Hank Greenberg, Hall of Famer and 4-time home run champion ...
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 ...
Shohei Ohtani is now four home runs and four stolen bases away from becoming Major League Baseball's first 50-50 player.. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar hit his 46th homer of the season in ...
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 hitter. [10] Earl Wilson: 33 35 Hit two home runs as a pinch hitter. [11] Don Drysdale † 29 29 [12] John Clarkson † 24 24 [23] Bob Gibson † 24 24 [24] Carlos Zambrano: 24 24 [25] Walter Johnson † 23 24 Hit one home run ...
In the pre-professional era, Lipman Pike also hit five home runs in 1866. No player has ever hit four home runs in a postseason game; that record is three, first accomplished by Babe Ruth in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series. [2] According to the Society for American Baseball Research, Oil Cities catcher Jay J. Clarke went 8–8 with eight home ...
It is the hardest-hit home run by a Dodger in the Statcast era, which began in 2015. The designated hitter leads the majors in batting average (.364), slugging percentage (.677) and OPS (1.107).