MLB's Top 50 Home Run Hitters of All Time

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• The best home runs we ever saw: Rocking Wrigley, Game 7 drama and Bat Night fun
• Former Reds pitcher Tom Browning dies at 62
• Dave Winfield, 465
• Baker Mayfield, Cam Akers, Christian Watson Best Prop Bets and Odds for Monday Night Football
• No. 11: Dusty Rhodes: 1954 World Series, Game 1
• No. 49: Ted Williams: 1941 All-Star Game

In the opening game of the 1973 playoffs, the Mets jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with a run in the second inning. In front of the home fans last September 28th, the Reds got to celebrate their first division title in 15 seasons thanks to a walk-off blast. Whether it is in spring training, a regular season contest or on into the postseason, a walk-off home run is one of the most exciting plays in all of sports. I've seen a lot of Iconic homeruns. But one sticks out in my mind from power to power. Randy Johnson threw a ball that was probably a 100 mph.

Overall, Jackson won four World Series rings and hit 18 home runs in 77 career postseason games. He won a single MVP award in 1973 and led the league in home runs hit four separate times; knocking 30 or more home runs out of the park seven times in his career. The majority of his time on the field was with the Oakland A’s, spending 10 years there en route to a Hall of Fame career.

The best home runs we ever saw: Rocking Wrigley, Game 7 drama and Bat Night fun

He got the first two batters of the inning out, bringing up Jeter just as the clock at Yankee Stadium passed midnight, marking the first time baseball had been played in November. The Dodgers turned to reliever Tom Niedenfuer to keep things tied, after eight strong innings from ace Fernando Valenzuela. After inducing a popup from the first hitter of the inning Willie McGee, that brought Ozzie Smith to the plate hitting left-handed. In 3,009 at bats in his career batting left-handed, Smith had never homered, but when it mattered most, he came through with a game-ending jack to right field. Baseball fans will forever debate the legitimacy of this claim. Specifically, he was going to send the next pitch out to center field.

However, it is also the only series to ever have two walk-off home runs in it. They would go on to win the next two games as well to come back from facing elimination to advance to the ALCS. However, the Angels had other ideas, and they tied things up with a five-run seventh inning, backed by a grand slam from Vladmir Guerrero.

Former Reds pitcher Tom Browning dies at 62

I followed the Mark McGwire-Sammy Sosa circus for several weeks in 1998 and was in a sweltering, B.O.-infused press box in St. Louis when McGwire hit No. 62. I once sat in the bleachers at the Oakland Coliseum and watched Jim Rice hit a homer off Dave Beard that, in my recollection, landed behind me before the sound of contact reached my ears. Jackson earned the nickname “Mr. October” with his performance in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

In for his second inning of work, Dan Miceli sandwiched a pair of outs around a Charles Thomas single to open the inning. However, he could not escape the inning, as Rafael Furcal took him deep to give the Braves the win in Game 2 and even the series at 1-1. After the Astros jumped out to a 2-0 lead after three innings, the Braves used single runs in the seventh and eighth to knot things up at 2-2. The Mets scored two quick runs in the first inning of this one, but the Braves answered with two fourth inning runs to tie things up.

Dave Winfield, 465

Down 3-2 in the fourth inning, the Yankees outfielder hit a two-run home run and did the exact same thing in the fifth inning. Then in the eighth, he hit another home run to put the Yankees up 8-3. His performance secured the win and the series for New York. Which one of these three deserves the ninth spot on this list?

Foxx actually retired in 1942, but he came back briefly in 1944 and 1945 due so many major leaguers being overseas during the war. Pinch-hitter Wally Backman led off the ninth with a single, bringing up another pinch-hitter Danny Heep who flew out for the first out of the inning. He was followed by Lenny Dykstra, who had entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the seventh inning. After a first pitch strike, Dykstra drove the next offering into the right field bleachers for the game-winner. A day after the Red Sox and Indians played 13 innings and set the record for longest postseason game, the Mariners and Yankees played 15 innings and topped the time of the other game by six minutes. Coincidentally enough, both games ended with a walk-off home run and both are on this list.

That earned him the nickname Mr. November. Kim would blow another save the next game, but the Diamondbacks got the last laugh, winning the series in seven games when Yankees closer Mariano Rivera blew a save of his own. The first batter of the inning was hit by a pitch then sacrificed over. That was followed by an RBI double from Johnny Logan, as the Braves tied things up.

Another hit the very top of the center-field video scoreboard. And several more flew out the back windows and out to some lucky fans standing outside a domed stadium. Estimates from that day had Sosa bashing seven 500-plus foot blasts, including a neck-craning 524-footer that stands as the longest Derby dinger ever measured -- Statcast Era or prior. That moment propelled Pujols to a swing-off with Kyle Schwarber, where he hit seven homers and took down the top seed.

That's when Boone, who entered as a pinch-runner during that eighth, drove the first pitch he saw from Tim Wakefield into the masses. In a flash, the future Yankees manager had secured the franchise's 39th pennant and added another chapter to baseball's best rivalry. The controversial Bonds — who is not in the Hall of Fame — sits atop the list for most home runs in a career and most in a single season . The seven-time MVP is also the all-time leader in walks and led the league in on-base percentage 10 times. About five hours later, Brosius stood in the batter's box, in the ninth inning.

The very next game, it again came down to the wire, as the Astros pushed across a run in the ninth against Jason Isringhausen to force extra innings. However, a solo home run by Pete Rose in the bottom of the eighth tied things up, and then Johnny Bench took Seaver deep as well with one out in the ninth to give the Big Red Machine a walk-off win. For the Mariners, starter Paul Abbott was "effectively wild" as he walked eight through five but didn't give up a hit. For the Yankees, Roger Clemens gave way to Ramiro Mendoza, who would go three inning to bridge the gap to Mariano Rivera. It was then that Clemente pulled off the most impressive home run to date, with an inside-the-park, walk-off grand slam. There have been a number of occurrences of walk-off, inside-the-park home runs through the years, but there has only been a walk-off, inside-the-park grand slam and that belongs to Roberto Clemente.

Although the Yankees would ultimately lose in seven games, Mantle’s home run has not been forgotten. The steroid era in Major League Baseball brought shame upon the game, but it also placed several names near or at the top of the all-time home run lists. The best hitters of the 1990s have changed the way we view offensive numbers entirely. But prior to the early ’90s, baseball history offered a different picture of home run hitters. Here are the 10 best home-run hitters prior to the steroid era.

Now, let's take a look back at some of the greatest playoff home runs that came before him in AL/NL history. The 2022 postseason brought us some absolutely epic home runs. Indeed, this was unquestionably Sosa’s event – the winner said so himself. Josh Gibson reportedly hits only home run out of Yankee Stadium, 1934. 5 BEST NON-MLB HOMERS1. Warren Morris wins 1996 College World Series for LSU, 9-8 over Miami, with a two-out, two-run, bottom-of-9th home run .

After getting the first out of the inning, Dodger reliever Jay Howell served up a home run ball to Mark McGwire on what was just the A's fifth hit of the game, as they came away with the win. However, the Cubs scored a pair of runs in the top of the eighth to tie things up, and after holding the Padres scoreless in the bottom of the inning, they too were unable to score in the top of the ninth. The game made it to the bottom of the 10th, when the Angles turned to starter Jarrod Washburn to relieve Francisco Rodriguez with one on and two out to face the left-handed David Ortiz. He managed to throw one pitch, and just like that, the game and the series was over. Up 2-0 in the series, the Red Sox came into Game 3 looking to slam the door on a series sweep of the Angels, and they came out hot, jumping out to a 6-1 lead after five innings.