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Oscar Budejen — the Spanish play-by-play voice for the Phillies — was experiencing his first “Red October” in 2022, making the moment especially memorable. Thome was inducted onto the Phillies Wall of Fame in 2016, two years before he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Abreu was inducted onto the Phillies Wall of Fame in August of 2019, and has garnered some Hall of Fame votes. Reds catcher Johnny Bench was a power threat for the Big Red Machine and is permanently enshrined with a statue at Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati. Even though Hank Aaron was aging by the time the 1970s came around, he still had plenty of power. Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson takes one of his famous swings during a 1979 game at Yankee Stadium.
The 1970s was a decade full of legendary power—even though it was just one of the two decades in the past 110 years that did not feature a player with 300 total home runs. The '70s made up for it by establishing a new all-time career leader in home runs and producing numerous postseason blasts that are forever etched in the minds of fans who witnessed them. Four different players held the lead at the end of a season in the race for the decade home run title, with three players vying for the crown entering the 1979 season. And if you want star power, you've come to the right place, as 6 of the 10 players on the following list are enshrined in the Hall of Fame.
Babe Ruth
A silver slugger last year with 33 homers, Riley has upped his number to 38 this year. Five-time home run champ Alex Rodriguez finished his career with 696 home runs. He won two MVPs with the Yankees, in 2005 and 2007, seasons he won the HR title. Tottenham 'interested in signing Argentina international Alexis Mac Allister' after his impressive displays... Father Sachin, who is the highest scoring Test batsman of all-time, hit a hundred on his Ranji Trophy debut for Mumbai in 1988 at the age of just 15.
“We were in the middle of a wave that was going on at that point that was unlike anything anybody had ever seen,” Graham remembered. “In that wave that was going on, it appeared like he was capable of hitting the ball out of the ballpark in any at-bat, on any pitch. And I remember being incredulous that he reached out and kind of poked at it almost. His ability to be able to generate power the other way was what was eye-popping about him when he first got to the big leagues.
Jim Gentile
Replays "to get the call right" have been used extremely sporadically in the past, but the use of instant replay to determine "boundary calls"—home runs and foul balls—was not officially allowed until 2008. On June 20, 2018, George Springer, Alex Bregman, and José Altuve of the Houston Astros hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays. On June 9, 2019, the Washington Nationals hit four in a row against the San Diego Padres in Petco Park as Howie Kendrick, Trea Turner, Adam Eaton and Anthony Rendon homered off pitcher Craig Stammen. Stammen became the fifth pitcher to surrender back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs, following Paul Foytack on July 31, 1963, Chase Wright on April 22, 2007, Dave Bush on August 10, 2010, and Michael Blazek on July 27, 2017. When two consecutive batters each hit a home run, this is described as back-to-back home runs.
On October 31, 2009, in the fourth inning of Game 3 of the World Series, Alex Rodriguez hit a long fly ball that hit a camera protruding over the wall and into the field of play in deep right field. The ball ricocheted off the camera and re-entered the field, initially ruled a double. However, after the umpires consulted with each other after watching the instant replay, the hit was ruled a home run, marking the first time an instant replay home run was hit in a playoff game.
Dave Winfield, 465
Likewise, the pitcher is recorded as having given up a hit and a run, with additional runs charged for each runner that scores other than the batter. Jim Thome slugged 100 or more career home runs for a trio of teams, led by the Cleveland Indians . 1969 MVP Harmon Killebrew led the American League in home runs six different times from 1959 to 1969, hitting 49 on multiple occasions. Longtime Phillies infielder Mike Schmidt hit a career-best 48 out of the park in 1980 en route to the first of three MVP awards he’d eventually take home. Jimmie Foxx won MVP three times during his career, with the first coming at the end of the 1932 season on the heels of a 58-homer barrage. Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Mathews led all of baseball with 47 home runs in 1953, then did the same thing in 1959 with 46.
That alone probably would have made this list, but “the Big Piece” was just getting warmed up. As far as memorable day games go at Citizens Bank Park, Sept. 3, 2006 is pretty high on the list – almost exclusively because of Ryan Howard. It was OK, though, because Nick Pivetta was less-than-stellar on the mound for the team’s second game of the season two days later. The Phillies needed offense, and Harper provided some insurance in the bottom of the seventh with a 465-foot home run. 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. Alex Rodriguez led the American League in home runs five times, three with the Texas Rangers and twice with the New York Yankees.
The first time was on September 15, 1938, when Lloyd Waner and Paul Waner performed the feat. However, since the fielder is not part of the field, a ball that bounces off a fielder and over the wall without touching the ground is still a home run. Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.
This list also includes Hall of Famers Mel Ott, Joe DiMaggio, Eddie Mathews and Johnny Bench, two-time MVP Juan Gonzalez and three-time MVP Alex Rodriguez. A wave of exciting young stars has burst onto the scene in recent years, several of whom are already putting their stamp on the history books. We would be remiss to not mentionBrett Myers’ nine-pitch walk earlier in the inning off of Sabathia. It kept the inning alive, and allowed Jimmy Rollins the chance to follow up with another walk.
A notable back-to-back home run of that type in World Series play involved "Babe Ruth's called shot" in 1932, which was accompanied by various Ruthian theatrics, yet the pitcher, Charlie Root, was allowed to stay in the game. He delivered just one more pitch, which Lou Gehrig drilled out of the park for a back-to-back shot, after which Root was removed from the game. A walk-off home run is a home run hit by the home team in the bottom of the ninth inning, any extra inning, or other scheduled final inning, which gives the home team the lead and thereby ends the game.
The Marlins protested that video replay was not allowed, but while the National League office agreed that replay was not to be used in future games, it declined the protest on the grounds it was a judgment call, and the play stood. May 2019 saw 1,135 MLB home runs, the highest ever number of home runs in a single month in Major League Baseball history. During this month, 44.5% of all runs came during a homer, breaking the previous record of 42.3%. On July 23, 2017, Whit Merrifield, Jorge Bonifacio, and Eric Hosmer of the Kansas City Royals hit back-to-back-to-back home runs in the fourth inning against the Chicago White Sox. On August 25, 2011, the New York Yankees became the first team to hit three grand slams in one game vs the Oakland A's. When a home run is scored, the batter is credited with a hit and a run scored, and a run batted in for each runner that scores, including himself.
In the league's inaugural 1876 season, Hall hit five home runs for the short-lived National League Philadelphia Athletics. In 1901, the American League was established and Hall of Fame second baseman Nap Lajoie led it with 14 home runs for the American League Philadelphia Athletics. Over the course of his 22-season career, Babe Ruth led the American League in home runs twelve times. Mike Schmidt and Ralph Kiner have the second and third most home run titles respectively, Schmidt with eight and Kiner with seven, all won in the National League. Kiner's seven consecutive titles from 1946 to 1952 are also the most consecutive home run titles by any player. Cincinnati's Joe Morgan led off the 1977 All-Star game with a home run, one of just five players in baseball history to do so.
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