The History of MLB’s Home Run Records

MLB's home run records are some of the most storied and prestigious in all of sports, and their history is ingrained in American pop culture. This is how they came to be.
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Game 1:04
Postseason 5:47
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Career 23:20

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didn't Carlos Delgado hit four in a game in 02

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What about Tatis's 2 Grand Slams in 1 inning? It is likely the only home run record never to be broken.

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I considered doing an entire grand slams segment, but the video was already long enough as it is

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His father did it before him.

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Bill Mueller of the Red Sox did it years ago, and he hit one from each side of the plate.

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@@reggiejenkins6458 That's not what I was talking about. Tatis hit 2 in the same inning. Bonus points if you can answer of which pitcher. Mueller hit 2 in 1 game yes but not in the same inning.

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It was electric. I was there with my niece and nephew. We had season tickets that year, and remember getting pins for each of the home runs as he got closer to the record. My niece just found her 756 pin.

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@@BeatLA24 somewhere in parents house we have a little bag of 756 pins. Would take awhile to find but I know we'd never get rid of it.

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The Boone/Cameron pair of back to back homers was impressive because they both hit their own basically in the same spots.

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[@craigwheeler4760]

Josh Hamilton came the closest of anyone that hitting five home runs in one game. It was May of 2012, Elvis Andrus got on base four times and every time, Josh Hamilton drove him in with a HR. In the fifth inning of that game, Josh Hamilton hit a double off of the wall with some top spin on it. Had that ball gotten up another couple of feet, or been hitting slightly higher, that would have been the fifth home run

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He hit 4 HR in 4 innings!?

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I do wish he talked about Jose Bautista’s insane jump in home runs ngl 2010 and 2011 he hit over 90 home runs in two seasons after not hitting more than 15 in a single season

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Growing up during the prime Bautista years, I would've loved to talk about him. But the video would've been 3 hours long if I went through every player who had a few absurdly good power hitting seasons. Tried to restrict myself to only league record significant players

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The idea that Bonds didn’t start using steroids until 1998 is truly laughable.

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What’s laughable is that he isn’t in the hall of fame.

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Sosa averaged 60+ HR over a 4 season stretch. That's 240 HR from '98 through '01. Holy 💩.

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As a Phillies fan thank you for including Bryce here but there's no way that'll happen with how old he is and where he's at currently. I'm certain he'll get to 500 though, and who knows maybe 600 if he stays in shape and eventually turns to DHing full time. Personally I'd take 3 to 5 more Octobers after this year over breaking the all time home run record.

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Buzz Arlett is the only professional player to hit 4 HR in a game twice in his career. He did it twice in 1932 when he was playing for the Baltimore Orioles (not the same Baltimore Orioles team as today, this was an unaffiliated AA minor league team in the International League, both against the Reading Phillies on June 1 and July 4, 1932.

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Whats wild is that for as much an absolute freak as Bonds was, the worldwide career record for professional home runs is Sadaharu Oh in the NPB with a staggering 868. Nobody in the history of that league has ever come within 200 of him, and his personal best was 55 in a season, just a metronome of power hitting in a league not historically known for it.

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I've always loved that record as well. For all that people want to treat japanese baseball as a quad A league, they have and had players of astronomical talent, AND seem to produce better pitchers than hitters on average. Makes their hitting records worth more in my opinion. You dont hear about career minor league/semi pro players putting up over eight hundo, and Oh definitely faced better competition than that comparison in a true professional league. Reminds me of ichiro having the professional hit record, but not the MLB record.

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postseason records are a bit paradoxical aren’t they - if you do well enough to hit a ton of home runs, it actually could hurt your chances of breaking the record because you’ll play less games

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That's not necessarily true. More home runs doesn't mean you're winning (resulting in less games played). If you become an actual threat you're more likely to get the Bonds treatment which would result in less at bats due to intentional walks or unintentional intentional walks (being pitched around).

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Fun Fact: in 1998 Greg Vaughn was also in the race midway through the season. Vaughn hit 50 HR Griffey hit 56 HR Sosa hit 66 HR McGwire hit 70 HR Another Fun Fact: the following year in 1999 Soda hit 63 HR. In 2001 Sosa hit 64 HR. McGwire hit 65 HR in 1999. Sosa has more 60+ homerun seasons than McGwire.

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There’s only one thing wrong with this video. Bob Horner from the Atlanta Braves hit four home runs in one game, And he wasn’t mentioned in the video.

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I am an Angel's fan, I could see Trout going for Judges record next season if not hurt some how since he literally hit 40 home runs, catching up to Ohtani home run record of that season with him being out for long stretches of it. I could also see many players going for home run records since we do have so many great players these days from pitchers to hitters. I could also see Ohtani being good as Trout's hitting one of these days, for me I think Trout will help him mentor or any other great baseball player if he goes to another team. Time will tell but, I really could see Trout next year for it. I am also waitting on the confirmation if Albert will be done since many big Cardinals team mates want him to stay. It was was amazing to see him reach 500 home runs and see him years now hit 700. I always thought he could do it after so many people telling me no lol. We will just see what the future holds, very much enjoyed this video, maybe one day we can finish the history debate on Barry Bonds since I do think opinions have been changing so far in his favor.

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Judge hit more home runs in his rookie season than Trout did last year. The only man that’s gonna break judges record is judge. I get it that your an angels fan but let’s be realistic here. Also Trout isn’t gonna mentor Ohtani since Ohtani is literally better than him