Sentences with phrase «home run record»

Well, he went on to do amazing things — including setting the career home run record.

Like if it existed in 2007, you could ask, «Has anybody beat Hank Aaron's home run record?»

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It's the story of the 1961 home run race between teammates Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, as they try to break Babe Ruth's single - season home run record.

# 1, no Barry Bonds # 2, in records, Mark McGuire still has home run record # 3, in San Francisco, there is a sign in right - center field that has Aaron, Ruth, and then Mays... (where's Bonds?)

The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.

They set an American League home run record of 193, but only one Yankee hitter was over.300 (Moose Skowron at.309), and not another was over.284.

Eighteen years after he broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Henry Aaron can't forget the racist threats that haunted his quest

The Cardinals traded for him in 1997, reuniting former A's manager Tony La Russa with the slugger, and then Big Mac went on to break the all - time single - season home run record by bashing 70 dingers in 1998.

John Romano set home run record for Cleveland catchers with 16, hit.272.

They're seeing Mike Moustakas — an all - star who just set his franchise's single - season home run record — limp into March without a job because of draft - pick compensation and a crumbling market.

Right now the league is on pace to break the all - time single - season home run record, and there are several possibilities for this recent surge.

By Baseball Prospectus TREVOR HOFFMAN is on the verge of breaking Lee Smith's saves record the sameway Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's home run record: with extreme consistency.Aaron never hit more than 47 home runs in a season, but he hit at least 30 on15 occasions.

For Smith, that encounter came in the leftfield bleachers of Busch Stadium in St. Louis in 1998, shoulder to shoulder with 50,000 people standing on their seats and roaring every time Mark McGwire came to the plate to try to break Roger Maris's home run record, an entire city — oblivious to McGwire's steroid use and deceit — melted into one.

Wasn't it only yesterday that the commissioner of baseball had sat in a field - side box to witness a revision of the home run record, while fans (albeit not in neoprene wet suits and not brandishing plastic paddles) jockeyed for the specially marked prize baseball?

It was the lowest single - season home run record for any franchise in the league and it was not only a sad number but a depressingly long time since anybody had topped the lowly record of 36.

The national perception is that San Francisco is solidly behind Barry Bonds in his chase for the home run record.

Well, it took them 32 seasons but somebody on the Royals finally broke Steve Balboni's franchise home run record, which had stood since 1985.

«Although Oh has done much to promote baseball, it has been 37 years since he set his single - season home run record,» the national daily Asahi Shimbun wrote last month.

Recently in a post about quest to break the home run record, we listed the schedule of penalties for baseball's drug testing policy.

It was that Class A team that retired his uniform after he set a club home run record.

Someone who hits 62 home runs will need a dozen more to break The Real Home Run Record, even if you're already more impressed by the new accomplishment.

Not since Henry Aaron chased and caught the Babe's career home run record in 1974 had there been such a fuss.

It's to explain the sense of reverence and wonder that I have for Bonds and why I bristle at the suggestion that his home run record isn't canon.

Don Drysdale and Don Newcombe, sometimes used as pinch hitters by the Dodgers, share the National League single - season home run record (seven) for pitchers.

I'm willing to believe that Stanton can break the real single - season home run record this season.

What I'm not into is the unsubtle shifting of the goalposts; the snaky language and gaslighting that comes with The Real Home Run Record.

The single - season home run record is the most revered mark in sports.

In most cases when an athlete goes after one of the valid records of sport (Roger Maris» pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run record, for instance) his efforts generate violent partisanship among fans and players.

Because even though the only records set in this game were George Springer's extra-base accomplishments and home run record, plus Cody Bellinger's unfortunate strikeouts - in - a-series record, the threat of all the historic number of dingers and runs and lengths of games that came before this final matchup hung over the entire thing like a certain blade that once threatened Damocles.

On pace to challenge Mark McGwire's rookie home run record, Judge is the heavy favorite to win the AL MVP.

Like the Giants, the Tigers had easygoing managers who refused to crack the whip and demand game - winning hits and instead let their «sluggers» aim for club home run records.

Not exact matches

You take a great player, put him on the juice and he becomes a record - breaking home run machine.

Signing musicians to recording deals is like playing big - league baseball: Even future Hall of Famers retire with far more strikeouts than home runs.

These seven games were full of power — Houston and Los Angeles set the record for most home runs in a single World Series — and dramatic comebacks.

Soaring stocks and record home run seasons go hand - in - glove.

Like most families, we have a few favourite dinner recipes that run on repeat like old records in our home.

For being one of the few human beings in recorded history to hit a World Series - defining home run, Freese probably isn't very interesting on his own.

Roger Maris played in 10 more games in his record - setting 61 - homer season than Babe Ruth did, and he hit just one more home run.

The opposite can be said of Paul Lambert's Aston Villa side, who find themselves on a terrible run of form, losing six of their last seven and The Villa have the worst home record in the Premier League, worrying indeed for the Holte End faithful.

The only major record he has left to break during the last few games of August is Sammy Sosa's all - time home runs in a month record of 20.

With 61 home runs in last year's Home Run Derby, Giancarlo Stanton set the all - time record for the most home runs in a single dehome runs in last year's Home Run Derby, Giancarlo Stanton set the all - time record for the most home runs in a single deHome Run Derby, Giancarlo Stanton set the all - time record for the most home runs in a single dehome runs in a single derby.

With his latest home run on Tuesday night, his 51st this year, Stanton tied Rudy York's 80 - year - old record for most home runs in the month of August, accomplished by York in 1937.

During his 17 seasons (1967through» 83), Bench batted.267 with 389 home runs (a big league - record 327 ofthem as a catcher) and 1,376 RBIs and won 10 Gold Gloves.

Pujols has hit just two home runs, and the Angels are already seven games back of the Rangers with a 17 - 21 record.

Hernandez's three home runs matched an MLB postseason record for a game, and his seven RBI matched a League Championship Series record.

After a record - shattering season for home runs in 1987, the long ball has come up short.

St. Louis» Stan Musial, as reliable as an old shoe, hammered first 1958 home run and single against Chicago Cubs (April 17) to break National League record for total bases, added 3 homers.

That home run put the Rangers up 30 - 3, an American League record, a score that was topped only by a Colts / Colonels game from 1897, when baseballs were made out of leather swatches wrapped around shrunken raccoon skulls.

Of the record 22 home runs that have already gotten smashed into oblivion in this series, 13 have come off Houston bats.