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• Most walkoff home runs in a season (all teams combined)
• Three grand slams by a team in one game
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• League leader in home runs, three different teams
• Can you name the players with the most Home Runs (HR) in a season without having any multi-homer games?

Gibson's true total is not known, in part due to inconsistent record keeping in the Negro leagues. The 1993 edition of the MacMillan Baseball Encyclopedia attempted to compile a set of Negro league records, and subsequent work has expanded on that effort. Those records demonstrate that Gibson and Ruth were of comparable power. The 1993 book had Gibson hitting 146 home runs in the 501 "official" Negro league games they were able to account for in his 17-year career, about 1 homer every 3.4 games. Babe Ruth, in 22 seasons (several of them in the dead-ball era), hit 714 in 2503 games, or 1 homer every 3.5 games. The large gap in the numbers for Gibson reflect the fact that Negro league clubs played relatively far fewer league games and many more "barnstorming" or exhibition games during the course of a season, than did the major league clubs of that era.

In the tables below, players and teams denoted in boldface are still actively contributing to the record noted, while denotes a player's rookie season. Hitting two home runs in a game is a feat, but imagine for a moment hitting a home run left-handed then hitting another in the same game right-handed. We have every instance in Major League history where a batter has had a home run from each side of the plate during the same game in our Fabulous Feats section.

Most walkoff home runs in a season (all teams combined)

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During that span, he hit at least one home run in three consecutive games and put together back-to-back multi-home run games. In a game on May 31, 1999, involving the St. Louis Cardinals and Florida Marlins, a hit by Cliff Floyd of the Marlins was initially ruled a double, then a home run, then was changed back to a double when umpire Frank Pulli decided to review video of the play. 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. On August 14, 2008, the Chicago White Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals 9–2. In this game, Jim Thome, Paul Konerko, Alexei Ramírez, and Juan Uribe hit back-to-back-to-back-to-back home runs in that order. Thome, Konerko, and Ramirez blasted their homers off Joel Peralta, while Uribe did it off Rob Tejeda.

Three grand slams by a team in one game

His 434 career homers ranks him 47th on the all-time list, well below the other heavy hitters represented here. Nearly all of those multi-homer performances came with Texas, where he spent the majority of his career and won two AL MVP Awards. Though he's since been surpassed by several modern-era players, Ott's 511 homers ranked third on baseball all-time list at the time of his retirement. The longtime New York Giant was the first player to reach 500 home runs in the NL, and in doing so, he tallied 48 two-homer games.

Even without adjusting for the fact that we have yet to play the last six weeks of the season, 2019 already ranks among the top three seasons of the last 45 years for the number of multi-home runs games produced by the league’s players . Give it a week or so, and I’m fairly confident we’ll fly by 1999 for second place. Taking the top spot — or even clearing 400, which has never been done before — will be a bit more difficult, of course, but I’d bet in favor of it happening. The record mark is just 41 games ahead of the current total, and most teams have about 30 games left to go.

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Since Gyorko's ball was pulled right down the line -- and because the left-field fence at PNC Park is a very short 325 feet away -- a ball that is otherwise an easy out to left fielder Starling Marte was in this case just inches beyond his grasp. You'll note that this ball barely made it into the welcoming arms of the Crawford Boxes in left field, and that's going to be a recurring theme. Of the thousands of times that same type of ball has been hit, it's been an out just about every single time ... Robinson remains the only player in MLB history to take home Most Valuable Player honors in both the American League and National League. He retired 14 home runs shy of reaching 600 and recorded 53 two-homer performances in his 21 years in the big leagues. Now, however, multiplayer has evolved into something that even those who have never picked up a controller have a better understanding of.

The game tasks four players with scavenging materials, building a base and defending it from hordes of undead. Throw in four classes, skill trees and loot with different rarities, and the prospect of a 2017 Fortnite release becomes even more tantalizing. That's right, even in Game 5 of the World Series, after more than six months of baseball, we were still seeing unexpected home runs -- like Correa's absolute moonshot off Brandon Morrow. To put 48 degrees into some context, realize that the average home run is hit at 28 degrees, and 93 percent of dingers are hit between 20 degrees and 40 degrees. Given some of the unusual dimensions of parks throughout the years (think of the mere 258 feet of the right-field line at the Polo Grounds), Cain's 302-foot tater in July isn't the shortest over-the-wall home run in history. It is the shortest Statcast™ has measured in its three years, however, and it's hard to see that record falling any time soon.

League leader in home runs, three different teams

This was the first occurrence of three home runs in a row ever in postseason play. The Boston Red Sox repeated the feat in Game Four of the 2007 American League Championship Series, also against the Indians. The Indians returned the favor in Game One of the 2016 American League Division Series. Such a home run can also be called a "sudden death" or "sudden victory" home run.

Major League Baseball's longest verifiable home run distance is about 575 feet , by Babe Ruth, to straightaway center field at Tiger Stadium (then called Navin Field and before the double-deck), which landed nearly across the intersection of Trumbull and Cherry. Major League Baseball keeps running totals of all-time home runs by the team, including teams no longer active as well as by individual players. Gary Sheffield hit the 250,000th home run in MLB history with a grand slam on September 8, 2008. Sheffield had hit MLB's 249,999th home run against Gio González in his previous at-bat. The record for consecutive home runs by a batter under any circumstances is four.

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Most recently, Chris Taylor did it for the Dodgers in the 2021 NLCS. With the aforementioned 25 or under Cubs all having 20 or more home runs, plus 27-year-old Anthony Rizzo and his 31 home runs, the Cubs set a franchise record with six players with 20 or more home runs in a season. Three previous Cubs teams had five players with 20 or more dingers. It’s no secret that Epic Games’ Fortnite has been in development for a very long time. But considering that the closed alpha version of the game has received holiday update patches we can’t help but assume that 2017 is finally its year.

Unlike with an outside-the-park home run, the batter-runner and all preceding runners are liable to be put out by the defensive team at any time while running the bases. This can only happen if the ball does not leave the ballfield. The other Cubs team to have five players with 20 or more home runs was from nearly 60 years ago and the big bat was Mr. Cub, Ernie Banks.