![]() Louis Cardinals were considered one of the game’s top home run-hitting teams between 1920-49, but they didn’t come close to matching the dominant power runs of the Giants and Yankees. Interestingly, a year later, in the first AL season of 162 games, their total shot up to a then-record 240 while Roger Maris hit his historic 61 home runs. The Yankees’ 193 homers in 1960 marked the AL standard for a 154-game season. ![]() The Yankees’ Tom Tresh, left, and Giants’ Willie Mays in 1962. The 1955 Dodgers hit 201 round-trippers in 154 games. The 1947 New York Giants (led by Hall of Fame slugger Johnny Mize’s 51 homers) and the 1956 Cincinnati Redlegs hit 221 each and the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers had 208, though each of the three teams played a 155th regular-season game. The AL increased its schedule from 154 games to 162 in 1961 and the NL did the same one year later.ĭuring the 154-game era, the NL boasted the only four teams to slug at least 200 home runs. They also had second-most long balls over a two-year span in MLB, next to only the Yankees. The 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers hold the league record in the NL with 279. Meanwhile, the Yankees had an MLB-record 14 players reach double figures in home runs hit, led by Gleyber Torres (36) and Gary Sanchez (34). But in 2019, five Twins slugged at least 30 – Nelson Cruz with 41, then Max Kepler (36), Miguel Sano (34), Eddie Rosario (32) and Mitch Garver (31). To say the Twins’ 307 homers were unexpected is an understatement after they only hit 166 a season earlier. Cron, Jake Cave and Jason Castro (the team’s 307th overall) combined for three compared to Aaron Judge’s solo home run in the Yankees’ 6-1 loss to the Texas Rangers. The Twins had one fewer homer than the Yankees to begin the final day of 2019 regular season, but in a 5-4 loss to the Kansas City Royals, C.J. Nelson Cruz of the Minnesota Twins in the 2019 season. Each team surpassed the Yanks’ 267 homers in 2018. The top four in the rankings also occurred that year: the Minnesota Twins slugging a single-season home run record of 307 to edge the Yankees (306), with the Houston Astros (288) third and the Los Angeles Dodgers (279) fourth. The 30 Major League Baseball teams combined to belt the most home runs in history – 6,776, or 10% more than the next-highest season of 6,105 in 2017. The place to be in the 2019 season was the seating beyond the outfield fences. Whose hitters are going yard most often? Let’s dive into the record books to explore which MLB teams have been the best at hitting home runs. (Sorry Jamie, but you did surrender the most home runs in MLB history: 522) Smaller parks, perhaps a smaller strike zone, juiced ball – juiced players, at one point – there could be many reasons the overall totals have elevated like a hanging Jamie Moyer cutter getting squared up. Today, it feels as though every team is banging home runs at a staggering level. Of course, that streak must have irked their old rivals so much that the Brooklyn Dodgers went on to post seven seasons in a row (1949-55) as the NL leader in round-trippers. Later, the New York Yankees did the same for six consecutive seasons (1936-41) in the American League. Way back in 1884, the origins of the Chicago Cubs – the Colts, then the White Stockings – began a run of eight straight seasons in which they led the league in home runs. ![]() The Boston Red Sox are the reigning World Series champions, having beaten the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018 to claim their ninth World Series title.Let’s just say baseball’s home run barrage started in the National League with the Chicago Colts. Teams play 162 games over the season, which culminates in the World Series, a best-of-seven championship series between the top two teams which takes place in October. ![]() A total of 30 teams play in the National League (NL) and American League (AL) - 15 in each. ![]()
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