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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 ...
The Homestead Grays are the only franchise with four players recording a .400 single-season batting average, albeit in different years: Joe Strong (1932), Josh Gibson (1937, 1943), Buck Leonard (1938) and David Whatley (1939) all hit .400 while playing for the Grays. Three players won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the same year as ...
Johnny Vander Meer's elusive record of back-to-back no-hitters in 1938 has been described as "the most unbreakable of all baseball records" by LIFE Some Major League Baseball (MLB) records are widely regarded as "unbreakable" because they were set by freak occurrence or under rules, techniques, or other circumstances that have since changed. Some records previously regarded as unbreakable have ...
The Arizona Diamondbacks are in the midst of a stretch that most big-league clubs can only dream about, winners of six straight games, 20 of 25 since the All-Star break and 30 of 40 since late June.
Ryan holds the record for most no-hitters in a career, with seven. Sandy Koufax is second on the list with four no-hitters. The first black pitcher to toss a no-hitter was Sam Jones who did it for the Chicago Cubs in 1955. The first Latin pitcher to throw one was San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal in 1963.
One of the hottest hitters in MLB is still raking. Julio Rodríguez passes Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey Jr. for fastest Mariners player to 50 HRs Skip to main content
Garry Templeton and Willie Wilson are the only two switch-hitters to collect 100 or more hits from each side of the plate in one season. Templeton ... totaled 111 from the left side and 100 from the right side. Wilson (amassed) ... 130 as a left and 100 as a righty swinger. ^ "League leader in hits, by year".
Shohei Ohtani reached 50-50, then 51-51, with one of the best games in MLB history. Ohtani reaching 50-50 felt inevitable by the time Thursday rolled around, as he entered the game with 48 homers ...