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It is therefore surprising that he is yet to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, although the San Francisco Giants did elect him to their Wall of Fame and retired the No. 25 jersey in his honor. Interestingly, Barry Bonds does not lead the list of all-time home runs scored for the San Francisco Giants – this accolade is held by Willie Mays, who is in sixth on the all-time league home run list. Robinson burst onto the baseball scene with 38 home runs and a league-high 122 runs scored as a 20-year-old rookie with the Reds in 1956. He continued to be one of the game’s top power hitters for the next 15 years, though he led the league in homers only once . Mark McGwire led the league in home runs 4 times including 52, 65, and record-breaking 70 home run seasons.
One of the top sluggers of the 1990s, Gonzalez crushed 40-plus homers five times from '92-98, leading the Majors twice ('92, '93) and winning two MVP Awards ('96, '98) in that span. Gonzalez had another 39 homers in 1999 before Texas traded him to the Tigers in a nine-player blockbuster. Babe Ruth started his major league career as a pitcher before moving to the outfield. Atypically, a batter who hits a fair ball and touches each base in succession from 1st to home, without an error being charged to a defensive player, is credited with an inside-the-park home run. If, during a play, defensive or fan interference is called, and the awarded bases allow the batter to cross home plate, the batter is credited with a home run.
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Phil Nevin , Dave Winfield , and Tony Gwynn round out the top five for the Padres, though a few current members of the Padres could pick off Colbert. Manny Machado only needs 64 more home runs to set the record, and if Fernando Tatis Jr. can remain healthy and avoid using PEDs again, he could make a run at the record. Killebrew began his career with the Washington Senators in 1954 before the team relocated to the Twin Cities and rebranded as the Minnesota Twins in 1961. Bill Mueller is the only player to hit a grand slam from each side of the plate. Sammy Sosa led the National League in home runs twice, with 49 and 50, but finished second four times with home run counts of 36, 66, 63, and 64.
He led the league in home runs three times, highlighted by his MVP season of 1969 when he hit .320 with 45 home runs and 126 RBIs. Gonzalez also holds Arizona's single-season home run record of 51, which he hit in 2001. That was a special year not only for Gonzalez individually, but for the D-backs, as they won their first World Series title in a seven-game thriller over the Yankees. Gonzalez finished third in NL MVP Award voting that season and to cap off his year, he delivered a walk-offf single off Mariano Rivera in Game 7 of the World Series. Ironically, it was a broken-bat bloop to shallow center field over New York's drawn-in infield.
Ken Griffey Jr. – 630 home runs
The 18-time All-Star never reached the 30-homer plateau in a season, but he finished with a total between seven times. Miguel Cabrera, who is under contract with the Tigers through 2023, could eventually leapfrog Kaline. The two-time AL MVP Award winner entered the 2020 season with 339 homers as a Tiger. As it stands, Stan the Man’s 475 homers top the Cards’ leaderboard, as do his 3,630 hits, 725 doubles, 177 triples, 1,951 RBIs and 1,599 walks. A 24-time All-Star, three-time MVP and seven-time batting champion, Musial never hit 40 homers or led the league in that category, but he had 20-plus homers in 10 seasons. Meanwhile, two active players in the twilight of their careers – Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera – are chasing down two legendary home run hitters.
Babe Ruth is second on the list of MLB all-time RBI leaders, only behind Hank Aaron, who spent his whole career playing in Milwaukee. The player who appeared the most times overall in the MLB is Pete Rose, who played a total of 3,562 games in a career spanning 23 years. Already among the most accomplished players in history, Trout has finished first or second in the AL MVP Award race in seven of the past eight seasons, winning three times. The outfielder has added more power to his game in recent years, belting a career-high 45 home runs over 134 games in 2019 and challenging for the big league lead in ’20. While Ty Cobb holds the majority of Tigers records, the man known as “Mr. A Hall of Famer, Kaline spent his entire 22-year career in Detroit and fell one homer shy of the 400 mark while also collecting more than 3,000 hits.
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Friday night in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, Cardinals legend Albert Pujols hit two home runs in the first four innings. Only three players had previously gotten to the threshold of 700 career home runs in Major League Baseball history. Piazza had nine career seasons with at least 30 home runs, more than double the total of any other catcher, and his personal best was 40, which he accomplished twice (1997, '99). Overall, the Hall of Fame backstop crushed 427 career homers in 16 seasons, with 396 of his long balls coming while he was playing the catcher position. Piazza also hit 18 homers as a designated hitter, eight as a first baseman and five as a pinch-hitter. For the purposes of this story, a player must have played at least two-thirds of his games at a position in order to qualify as its leader.
Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times, three with the Texas Rangers and twice with the New York Yankees. 1010Hit a home run on the first pitch of his first major league at bat, the 22nd batter and the seventh pitcher to accomplish the feat. 2135Hit 11 home runs while playing various other positions and three as a pinch hitter. Historically, different positions have come with different power expectations.
Career Leaders & Records for Runs Scored
Sammy Sosa played for four different teams, yet he’s most memorable for his 13 seasons with the Chicago Cubs, where he eclipsed "Mr. Cub", Ernie Banks, for the franchise home run record with 545 dingers. Banks sits in second place in Cubs history with 512, followed by Billy Williams , Ron Santo , and Ryne Sandberg . Cal Ripken holds the MLB record for most consecutive games played, but he also holds the Baltimore franchise record with 431 home runs for the Orioles. Hall of Famer Eddie Murray is second on the Orioles' home run list with 343 long balls. Mathews was a consistent power hitter for the Milwaukee Braves in the '50s and early '60s, hitting at least 30 home runs nine straight seasons.
To use individual functions (e.g., mark statistics as favourites, set statistic alerts) please log in with your personal account. Considered by some to be the best third baseman of all time, Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times during one 15-year stretch. He played his entire 18 years with the Phillies and was named NL MVP on three occasions. 44Hit a home run as one of his two third-inning hits against the Braves on July 18, 2019. He was only the fifth pitcher in the last 50 years to record two hits in the same MLB inning. The first pitcher to officially hit a home run was Jack Manning, who accomplished the feat on August 3, 1876.
A three-time MVP Award winner, Pujols became the ninth member of the 600 home run club in 2017 when he swatted a grand slam off Ervin Santana. However, Pujols actually ranks second when it comes to home runs hit as a first baseman , trailing Mark McGwire . Pujols has crushed 115 homers as a DH, 64 as a left fielder, 24 as a third baseman, seven as a pinch-hitter and six as a right fielder. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). Players in bold face are active as of the 2022 Major League Baseball season , with the number in parenthesis designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2022 season.
Musial's franchise record has stood for nearly 60 years – and it should remain in place a while longer. Albert Pujols has hit 460 home runs and counting in a Cardinals uniform but is slated to retire at the end of the 2022 season. He'll need a historic run in his final month of the season if he wants to catch Musial.
The "Say Hey Kid" comfortably sits at the top of the Giants franchise mark for home runs. Willie Mays crushed 646 home runs in 21 seasons with the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants. Baseball purists are undoubtedly thrilled that Barry Bonds did not topple Mays' record; Bonds fell short of the mark with 586 home runs in a Giants uniform. The top five also includes Mel Ott , Willie McCovey , and Matt Williams .
Ruth set the Major League Baseball single-season home run record four times, first at 29 , then 54 , 59 , and finally 60 . Ruth's 1920 and 1921 seasons are tied for the widest margin of victory for a home run champion as he topped the next highest total by 35 home runs in each season. Maris' mark was broken 37 years later by both Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa during the 1998 home run record chase, with McGwire ultimately setting a new record of 70. Barry Bonds, who also has the most career home runs, then broke that mark, setting the current single season record of 73 in 2001. The 1998 and 2001 seasons each had four players hit 50 or more home runs – Greg Vaughn, Ken Griffey Jr., Sosa, and McGwire in 1998 and Alex Rodriguez, Luis Gonzalez, Sosa, and Bonds in 2001. The lowest home run total to lead a major league was four, recorded in the NL by Lip Pike in 1877 and Paul Hines in 1878.
His 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues. In addition to holding the record for the longest consecutive games played streak at 2,632, Ripken is a member of the 3,000-hit club and had 431 home runs in his 21-year career. Although he moved to third base in 1997, the Iron Man played over three-quarters of his games at shortstop and is well ahead of the next-closest player for the positional home run lead. Pujols, the only positional home run leader who is currently active, has compiled 697 homers over 22 seasons in the Majors.
Longoria set the Tampa Bay Rays home run mark during his first ten seasons in the majors between 2008 and 2017. That's a record that could remain intact for a while because the Rays typically trade away their top young players instead of paying them lucrative contracts to stay with the team. Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs over his remarkable career, the majority of which came with the Yankees. The modern Yankee Stadium is much smaller than the original stadium (aka "the House That Ruth Built"), but Ruth's franchise HR record could be one of those unbreakable records.
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