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On July 6, 1956, Cleveland's Jim Bushby became the seventh player in baseball history to hit grand slams in consecutive games. The 1950s saw a huge spike in the number of players who hit at least 200 home runs; there were more than five times the amount of players who accomplished this feat in comparison to the 1940s. The home run became a resurgent piece of Major League Baseball offenses. The decade also hatched the careers of some of the most well-known players in the history of baseball—many of whom were prolific power hitters. Both MLB.com and Baseball-Reference.com list Lou Montañez's debut as April 28, 2008, in a suspended game that was subsequently resumed and completed on August 25, 2008.
These games have resulted in other MLB single-game records due to the extreme offensive performance. Mark Whiten tied Jim Bottomley for the most runs batted in in a single game with 12 in his four-homer game. Shawn Green hit a double and a single along with his four home runs for 19 total bases, an MLB record.
Home Run Records and Trivia
In that same year as well, there was another guy who played his first full season. Barry Bonds was spectacular for many seasons before he ever used steroids. Were it not for the money and limelight players like Canseco, Sosa, and McGwire got, he'd probably have never used them at all. The same could be said for quite a lot of the others who used and abused performance-enhancing drugs .
Mays opened his career as the National League Rookie of the Year in 1951, and in '54, he was voted as league MVP and led the New York Giants to a World Series victory over the Cleveland Indians. Then in '55, he hit 51 home runs for the highest single-season total for an NL player during the '50s. McCann struggled at the plate with the Mets, hitting .220 with 13 home runs, 64 RBIs and a .610 OPS in 182 games over two seasons with the team. By the time New York entered the playoffs last season, he had lost his starting job to Nido. Judge led the Majors in home runs by 16, the largest gap to lead the Majors in a single season since Philadelphia-AL's Jimmie Foxx led the Majors in 1932 by 17 over Babe Ruth .
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The member of the famed ’84 Tigers hit 49 home runs after 40 while playing for Detroit and finished his career with 11 as a 42-year-old with the 1989 Atlanta Braves. Two Dodgers pitchers set the National League record for home runs in a season by a pitcher. In 1956, Cincinnati's Frank Robinson tied the rookie home run record with 38, which has since been broken several times. During the 1950s, "Ozark Ike" hit 97.9% of his career home runs. Gus Zernial is not the most well-known player, but was among the most feared sluggers for most of the 1950s. Bobby Kielty and David Ross both hit their final home runs in a World Series game.
With just a few weeks left in the college season, it seemed likely that the batting average for Division I baseball in 2021 will be the lowest since the NCAA switched to metal bats in 1974. But from 2007 to now, the MLB strikeout rate has risen steadily to rates that the game has never seen before. As pitchers throw progressively harder and learn how to better design and sequence their pitches, they are missing more and more bats. These days, MLB hitters are striking out in 24% of all plate appearances. Ruth became the first player in Major League history to hit 400 home runs, posting a career-high 60 dingers in the legendary '27 season.
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McCann played in a career-high 118 games during the 2018 season, posting a .220 batting average with 8 home runs and 39 RBIs. He threw out 36% of potential base stealers, versus a league average of 28%. On November 30, 2018, the Tigers non-tendered McCann and he became a free agent.
Ted Kluszewski broke out as a big-time power threat in his fifth full season with the Reds in 1953. His 40 home runs that season opened a stretch of four straight seasons with at least 35 bombs, and he also made the All-Star team and hit better than .300 each year. During that stretch, he hit the third-most home runs and had the fifth-highest average (.316) in all of baseball.
Amateur career
Delgado hit a grand slam for his milestone 400th homer against the Cardinals for his second of the day. His first, a solo shot, gave the Mets an early lead, and his second, the 400th, brought the Mets within two runs. Konerko's 400th homer was a game-tying drive in the ninth inning of a White Sox-A's game. Konerko's leadoff solo shot forced extra innings, but Oakland won it in 14. Soriano snapped a five-game homerless streak by going deep in consecutive at-bats against Toronto southpaw J.A. The seven-time All-Star helped lead the Yankees to a 7-1 win behind Andy Pettitte.
He hit his first major league home run, an inside-the-park home run, on April 29, 2015. On May 21, 2015, he hit his first conventional home run, a walk-off in the 11th inning to give the Tigers a 6–5 victory over the Houston Astros. McCann became the first MLB player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a walk-off home run for his first two career home runs since Tim Raines in 1981. On June 28, 2015, McCann hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 9th inning to give the Tigers a 5–4 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
When a switch-hitting power hitter comes to bat, whether its on the right or left, and hits a home run, a unique situation is created. In 2022, Judge led the Majors in home runs, runs scored, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS (1.111), extra-base hits , total bases and WAR (11.4, FanGraphs) and tied for first in RBI . He ranked second in walks and intentional walks , fifth in batting average , sixth in multi-hit games and tied for eighth in hits . According to ESPN Stats & Information, he was the first player to lead the Majors in home runs, runs scored, extra-base hits and RBI since Mickey Mantle in 1956. The tributes to Vogt began before the game with a pregame ceremony in which the A’s honored his career with a video package of highlights from his six seasons with Oakland. I think the player who most wasted his good name with steroids was Alex Rodriguez.
In Game 1 of the 1959 World Series, Ted Kluszewski hit two home runs for the White Sox, becoming the first player in history to homer twice in his first postseason game. The New York Yankees hit four grand slams during World Series games in the 1950s, and in '56, Yogi Berra and Bill Skowron became the first teammates to each hit a grand slam in the same World Series. During the 1950s, Joe Adcock, Don Mueller and Stan Musial each homered five times over the course of back-to-back games, and remain tied for the Major League record. Gil Hodges is most known for his defensive skills at first base, but not to be forgotten was his consistent threat of power from the lineup. Hodges hit at least 20 home runs in every season during the 1950s, and that included five straight seasons above 30 from 1950 to '54.
