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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.
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.
The 2019 Major League Baseball Home Run Derby was a home run hitting contest between eight batters from Major League Baseball (MLB). The derby was held on July 8, 2019, at Progressive Field in Cleveland, OH, the site of the 2019 MLB All-Star Game. In an effort to lure more big name players to the Derby compared to previous seasons, MLB ...
On Monday night, we will have the 31st Home Run Derby, a fun event that has been put on by Major League Baseball since 1985. Will we witness history? Home Run Derby: All-time records
2. 2005: Bobby Abreu, Comerica Park. The first half of the 2005 season was a great one for Bobby Abreu, who smashed 18 home runs before the All-Star Break, en-route to his appearance in the Home ...
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 ...
5 Steve Carlton (1972, 1974, 1980, 1982–1983) 5 Roger Clemens (1988, 1991, 1996–1998) 5 Justin Verlander (2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2018) 4 Dizzy Dean (1932–1935) 4 Warren Spahn (1949–1952) 4 Sandy Koufax (1961, 1963, 1965–1966) § In 1998, because of a mid-season trade, Randy Johnson led Major League Baseball in strikeouts, but neither ...
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 ...