Sentences with phrase «season home run»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

He finished the year with 24 saves in 28 opportunities and a major league leading 1.65 ERA, and he still hasn't allowed a regular - season home run since July 19, 1986.

Every year sportsbooks release a number of prop bets, and one of the most popular is often based on who will hit the most regular season home runs.

Not exact matches

George Herman «Babe» Ruth was a star pitcher in his early career but achieved his fame as «The Sultan of Swat» by hitting 714 home runs and driving in 2,213 runs in 22 seasons between 1914 and 1935.

A season ago, Kemp led the National League in home runs, runs and RBIs, swiping 40 stolen bases in the process and nearly winning the Triple Crown.

Come hurricane season, which runs from June through November, residents living in coastal communities have to deal with the possibility of evacuating their homes when a hurricane is approaching.

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

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Several times this season, (Giancarlo) Stanton will roll into a city and leave without a home run.

Bobby Bonds's brother Barry, through Sunday, had 479 home runs during his 14 - plus major league seasons.

In five season in the majors, Hamilton has hit.305 with 118 home runs and 425 driven in.

If last season was the rule, not the exception, the Home Run Derby is already much better than it used to be.

While zooming through three levels of the minor leagues last season, Snider batted.275 -LRB-.349 OBP,.480 slugging) with 23 home runs and 91 RBIs.After a late - August call - up to the majors he hit.301 in 24 games and now saysthat playing in the big leagues was «easier than I thought.»

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.

With 20 home runs through Sunday, Toronto's Dave Winfield has a shot at becoming the first 40 - year - old player to hit 30 home runs in a season.

Gennett came into the game with three home runs on the season, and he left with seven.

The next home run Cody Bellinger hits will give him as many home runs as any Giants hitter has hit in a season since Barry Bonds left.

The young Dodger could be the best value on the 2017 Home Run Derby odds board at +900, smashing 25 home runs and 58 RBI so far this season in just 257 at bHome Run Derby odds board at +900, smashing 25 home runs and 58 RBI so far this season in just 257 at bhome runs and 58 RBI so far this season in just 257 at bats.

Desmond, now 30, picked a bad time to have his worst season in at least four years in 2015, hitting.233 /.290 /.384 with 19 home runs and 27 doubles in 156 games for the Washington Nationals.

While Sanchez has had a strong season by a catcher's standpoint with 13 home runs on the year, it is another Yankee who Stanton will need to watch out for in his quest to repeat as Home Run Derby champhome runs on the year, it is another Yankee who Stanton will need to watch out for in his quest to repeat as Home Run Derby champHome Run Derby champion.

Aaron Judge (+175) has absolutely crushed the ball in his rookie season, batting.329 with 30 home runs and 66 RBI.

Last season he had personal major league lows in home runs and RBIs, and at one point in September he got so fed up that he refused to enter a game as a pinch hitter.

Thomas left his home in Chicago during the off - season to spend a few months in Santa Monica, Calif., where he worked out with a personal trainer in the mornings and ran on the beach in the afternoons.

Ordonez, 26, led Chicago in home runs (30), RBIs (117) and total bases (318) last season and was the second - youngest player at the 1999 All - Star Game.

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.

They are the only father - son duo in major league history to each hit 50 home runs in a season, Cecil with 51 homers in 1990 and Prince with 50 on the nose in 2007.

The third baseman and outfielder is hitting.259 /.393 /.515 with 16 home runs, 16 doubles, and a National League - leading 53 walks so far in 2017, in just his third full season, after winning Rookie of the Year in 2015 then MVP in 2016.

During his last five seasons with the Royals, Cain hit.291 /.345 /.423 with a 107 OPS + and 49 home runs.

That gave Pham 21 stolen bases and 20 home runs on the season, the first Cardinals player with 20 homers and 20 steals in a season since Reggie Sanders in 2004.

but a memorable run that sends some Teams home early and generates some buzz for the following Season..

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

After a 10 - game unbeaten run, Norwich have lost four and drawn one of their last five league games and have won away from home only once this season.

In 1971, after another minor - league season in which he batted.261 and hit six home runs, Foli finally did make the Mets in spring training, and it was then that The Sporting News described him as «King of the Rednecks.»

A strong straightaway hitter, he clubbed a total of 49 home runs for the Cubs in 1961 and 1962 and batted better than.300 each season.

History is against Arsene Wenger's side as they are yet to beat Chelsea when they have been managed by Mourinho — a run that extends to 13 games following the clash at Stamford Bridge earlier in the season in which the home side were 2 - 0 winners.

Which seasons from the past 50 years have featured a higher percentage of home runs hit by rookies?

He is undoubtedly over the hill from his Most Valuable Player seasons in 1958 and 1959, but Ernie over the hill is still worth 20 or 30 home runs.

Only the legendary Babe Ruth (71 years ago) and the poignantly heroic Roger Maris (37 years ago) had hit that many home runs in a season.

Yet besides Yu Darvish's collapse (which itself was the Hangover 2 of the series since basically the same thing happened four games prior) and Springer's dirt - on - the - grave home run (which was the second season of Stranger Things of the series because it had all happened before but not in quite the same way) there weren't any events that baseball had never seen before to actually merit the anxiety that seeped from this game.

En route to winning the MVP award, first baseman Jimmie Foxx becomes the first Red Sox player to hit 50 home runs in a season.

Through Monday he had hit at least one home run for 22 consecutive weeks, dating to the second week of the season.