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He belted his first career home run on April 23, 1939, a year in which he won the AL Rookie of the Year Award after driving in an MLB-best 145 runs. Williams' 521st and final home run came in the final plate appearance of his storied career, a solo shot off the Orioles' Jack Fisher at Fenway Park on Sept. 28,1960. For instance, the great Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs in his career, yet he isn't the leading right fielder. Meanwhile, several players are first at their position with fewer than 450 homers. Babe Ruth holds the Major League record for hitting two or more home runs during a single game with seventy-two different instances. The Killer Bs – Bagwell, Craig Biggio, and Lance Berkman – dominated for the Houston Astros in the 1990s and early 2000s.
One of the top sluggers of the 1990s, Gonzalez crushed 40-plus homers five times from '92-98, leading the Majors twice ('92, '93) and winning two MVP Awards ('96, '98) in that span. Gonzalez had another 39 homers in 1999 before Texas traded him to the Tigers in a nine-player blockbuster. Babe Ruth started his major league career as a pitcher before moving to the outfield. Atypically, a batter who hits a fair ball and touches each base in succession from 1st to home, without an error being charged to a defensive player, is credited with an inside-the-park home run. If, during a play, defensive or fan interference is called, and the awarded bases allow the batter to cross home plate, the batter is credited with a home run.
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Any player who played at least two-thirds of his career in the outfield qualified in the outfield spot at which he played the most. The list helps contextualize the evolution of one of the most prized achievements in United States sports. In the early 1930s, Babe Ruth had almost 400 more home runs than the next player, his longtime teammate Lou Gehrig; when Joe DiMaggio retired in 1951, he was fifth on the all-time list.
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. After becoming the first Brewers player since Robin Yount to win an MVP Award in 2011, Braun flew past the Hall of Famer to claim sole possession of the franchise record with his 252nd career homer in 2015.
Ken Griffey Jr. – 630 home runs
By his fifth season with the New York Mets, Darryl Strawberry had passed Dave Kingman to set the all-time franchise home run mark. Pete Alonso, who hit 53 home runs as a rookie in 2019, is seventh on the Mets all-time list with 137 home runs and counting in just four seasons. He needs just 116 more to pass Strawberry and is expected to break the franchise record if he can remain with the Mets through the end of the decade. Snider began his career with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and smacked 43 home runs in 1956. He migrated with the team to the west coast in 1958 and spent five more seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, where he set the franchise record. The top five sluggers in Dodgers history include Gil Hodges , Eric Karros , Roy Campanella , and Ron Cey .
It took nearly six decades for that record to fall, with McGwire passing Foxx in 1992. Reggie Jackson , Jose Canseco , and Bob Johnson round out the top five in the history of the three-city franchise. Delahanty and Horner are the only players to hit four home runs in a game as a part of a losing effort. In 1997, he led Major League Baseball in home runs, but led neither the American nor National League, as his season was split between the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals. If that season were to be included, he would be the league leader for five seasons, four of which were in succession.
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Friday night in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium, Cardinals legend Albert Pujols hit two home runs in the first four innings. Only three players had previously gotten to the threshold of 700 career home runs in Major League Baseball history. Piazza had nine career seasons with at least 30 home runs, more than double the total of any other catcher, and his personal best was 40, which he accomplished twice (1997, '99). Overall, the Hall of Fame backstop crushed 427 career homers in 16 seasons, with 396 of his long balls coming while he was playing the catcher position. Piazza also hit 18 homers as a designated hitter, eight as a first baseman and five as a pinch-hitter. For the purposes of this story, a player must have played at least two-thirds of his games at a position in order to qualify as its leader.
The last change in the cutoff for the top 300 occurred on September 11, 2022, when Eugenio Suarez hit his 223rd career home run, displacing Jason Bay and Don Mattingly. The following is a chronology of the top ten leaders in lifetime home runs in Major League Baseball. Out of everyone on this list, Nate Colbert is the only player I had to look up. Colbert played first base and left field for the Padres between 1969 and 1974.
Career Leaders & Records for Runs Scored
Pujols intends to retire at the end of this season and will likely fall just short of the all-time home run record with the St. Louis Cardinals, currently held by Stan Musial. Cabrera, from the Detroit Tigers, will retire at the end of the 2023 season, which gives him a better opportunity to pass Al Kaline for the franchise record. It's one of the most revered, yet controversial, records in all of sports.
Two years later, Killebrew became the 10th member of the 500 home run club. After spending a year with the Royals in 1975, Killebrew retired with 573 homers, now the 12th most all time. Bonds isn’t just the home run leader among left fielders, he’s the leader among all players, period. The superstar slugger hit 40-plus homers eight times, including a single-season record 73 in 2001, en route to 762 for his career. The next closest left fielder is Manny Ramirez with 555 homers, followed by Ted Williams with 521.
A three-time MVP Award winner, Pujols became the ninth member of the 600 home run club in 2017 when he swatted a grand slam off Ervin Santana. However, Pujols actually ranks second when it comes to home runs hit as a first baseman , trailing Mark McGwire . Pujols has crushed 115 homers as a DH, 64 as a left fielder, 24 as a third baseman, seven as a pinch-hitter and six as a right fielder. Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 223 or more home runs hit during official regular-season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games). Players in bold face are active as of the 2022 Major League Baseball season , with the number in parenthesis designating the number of home runs they have hit during the 2022 season.
Musial's franchise record has stood for nearly 60 years – and it should remain in place a while longer. Albert Pujols has hit 460 home runs and counting in a Cardinals uniform but is slated to retire at the end of the 2022 season. He'll need a historic run in his final month of the season if he wants to catch Musial.
The "Say Hey Kid" comfortably sits at the top of the Giants franchise mark for home runs. Willie Mays crushed 646 home runs in 21 seasons with the New York Giants and San Francisco Giants. Baseball purists are undoubtedly thrilled that Barry Bonds did not topple Mays' record; Bonds fell short of the mark with 586 home runs in a Giants uniform. The top five also includes Mel Ott , Willie McCovey , and Matt Williams .
This is evident when looking at the all-time home run leaders at each spot on the diamond. Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of Hidden Game Sports. 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.
He led the league twice, with 47 in 1953 and 46 in '59, and was a 12-time All-Star. A late bloomer, “Big Papi” didn’t emerge as a big-time power hitter until his late 20s when he was signed by Boston after an uneventful six years with the Twins. Ortiz led the league with 54 home runs in 2006 and will be remembered as one of the most popular Red Sox players of all time. McGwire’s home run heroics will never be fully appreciated by most baseball enthusiasts due to his alleged involvement with steroids, but his numbers are absolutely incredible. He broke Roger Maris’ single-season mark with 70 home runs in 1998 and followed up with 65 the next season. In the league's inaugural 1876 season, Hall hit five home runs for the short-lived National League Philadelphia Athletics.
Longoria set the Tampa Bay Rays home run mark during his first ten seasons in the majors between 2008 and 2017. That's a record that could remain intact for a while because the Rays typically trade away their top young players instead of paying them lucrative contracts to stay with the team. Babe Ruth hit 714 home runs over his remarkable career, the majority of which came with the Yankees. The modern Yankee Stadium is much smaller than the original stadium (aka "the House That Ruth Built"), but Ruth's franchise HR record could be one of those unbreakable records.
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