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He was followed by Bobby Bonilla , Cal Ripken Jr. , Chris Hoiles , Roberto Alomar , and B.J. There was a big jump between there and the next-closest hitter. Eddie Murray was the eighth and final Oriole to slug double-digit homers, and he hit 10. His 2010 performance was reinforced by both a strong start and finish.
The third baseman slugged five dingers in each of the final three months of the season. His highwater mark came in May, which included 10 homers and 22 RBI in 115 plate appearances. The 1997 campaign was the first of two straight years with 56 homers for Ken Griffey Jr. While the Mariners produced just three 30-homer sluggers and six 20-homer hitters, they get an extra special distinction. Between Griffey and Jay Buhner , they’re the team highest on this list with multiple 40-homer players in a year. Paul Sorrento was the other Seattle slugger with 30-plus homers .
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It also happened to be one of those unusual games where each brother connected, as Wes belted one off Henry Johnson. Then there was Gaylord Perry, 40 years old, a Cy Young Award winner like his brother Jim, who is adding to the pitching laurels of baseball's best family pitching duo. Baltimore’s only other 30-homer hitter was Rafael Palmeiro, who slugged 39 taters.
If you look at the single-season home run leaders for 1927, Ruth was in a league by himself. Teammate Lou Gehrig came in a rather distant second with 47 dingers of his own. The rest of the top five was rounded out with a tie between Cy Williams and Hack Wilson at 30, and Rogers Hornsby at 26. This peak from Maris included two straight MVP awards, with his first coming in 1960. So, he came back from earning that accolade and outdid himself by becoming the single-season home run king.
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In summary on pitching brothers, the Perrys are easily the best family pitching combination in major league history. Jim closed out with 215 victories and Gaylord had 266 at the start of the 1979 season. Their superiority is challenged only in number of 20-win seasons. Stan Coveleski had six and Harry in his brief career had three. The only category that the Perrys have not been able to dominate is complete games and that is because pitching has changed considerably since 1900.
His 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues. The first home run champion in the National League was George Hall. In the league's inaugural 1876 season, Hall hit five home runs for the short-lived National League Philadelphia Athletics. 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.
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The PED implications aren’t anything to scoff at, but where would baseball be today if Sammy Sosa didn’t join the great home run chase? It’s something that brought many fans back after MLB’s 1994 strike. Prior to Sosa’s historic campaign, he had already broken out for the Chicago Cubs. Between 1993 and 1997, he collected four seasons of 30-plus homers and three years of at least 100 RBI.
Yes, I’m aware of the implications PEDs may have had on Barry Bonds’ record-breaking 2001 season. We’re here to talk about the video-game numbers he put together in real life. One might have a few questions about that mark, so let's get down and dirty with the all-time leaderboards. I believe the Seager brothers are closing in on the most home runs achieved by two brothers in the same season. Monday is the third day of the season that Corey and Kyle have homered on the same day, joining May 17 and May 31.
The Royals was one of many stops for journeyman pitcher Ken, who went with a 3.93 ERA in 14 seasons. Hank Greenberg knew how to drive in runs for the Detroit Tigers. Fresh off a season in which he led baseball with 184 RBI, he followed that with a single-season career-high mark for homers with 58 taters.
However, it was officially ruled an error and Wes had his no-hitter. And just like that, we have another squad with two hitters who slugged 40-plus homers. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. enjoyed a powerful breakout with 48 homers, while Marcus Semien’s 45 homers broke a single season record for second basemen. The guys who led the way were Nelson Cruz , Max Kepler , Miguel Sano , Eddie Rosario , and Mitch Garver .
They both hurled zeros for seven innings, but Pat won out 1-0 with relief help in the ninth. This was one of the relatively few cases where pitching brothers faced each other in a regulation game. Less unusual was the case of brothers Mickey and Dick Mahler pitching in the same game for the Atlanta Braves on April 20 and again on May 7. Mark McGwire led the league in home runs 4 times including 52, 65, and record-breaking 70 home run seasons.
Please let me know in the comments below if there is another power-hitting brother duo not seen here. But it seems the Seagers are poised to do some damage on this list for a few years. In 1966 Matty and Felipe finished first and second in the NL batting race, a feat even the Waners were unable to achieve. Matty, with the Pirates, hit .342, and Felipe, who led the league in hits, runs scored, and total bases, hit .327 for Atlanta. The three Sadowski brothers pitchers Ted and Bob, and catcher Eddie - never got together either in the 1960s. Marcel Lachemann and Rene Lachemann were not twins, but both of them were Major League baseball players AND former team managers of Major League franchises.
But it was also the second season of an eight-year stretch where he slugged at least 30 homers with 100-plus RBI. He didn’t hit fewer than six homers in any month during 2005. In fact, the first baseman hit exactly six on three occasions . Speaking of Buhner, 1997 was the third straight season he reached 40 homers while playing for the Mariners. He had four years of 20-plus homers leading up to that span between 1995 and 1997. He played parts of four more seasons, but only surpassed the 20-homer mark once more .
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