Athletics Babe Ruth 108 (17 more than Ted Williams) Browns/Orioles Babe Ruth 96 ( 4 more than Lou Gehrig) Cleveland Babe Ruth 92 (13 more than Ted Williams) Red Sox Babe Ruth 90 (20 more than Lou Gehrig) Senators/Twins Babe Ruth 89 (17 more than Mickey Mantle) Tigers Babe Ruth 123 (30 more than Jimmie Foxx) White Sox Babe Ruth 98 (21 more than Lou Gehrig)
Most Career Home Runs Against Any Team
1. Babe Ruth 123 Tigers
2. Babe Ruth 108 Athletics
3. Babe Ruth 98 White Sox
Willie Mays 98 Dodgers
5. Hank Aaron 97 Reds
6. Babe Ruth 96 Browns
7. Hank Aaron 95 Dodgers
8. Jimmie Foxx 93 Tigers
9. Babe Ruth 92 Cleveland
10. Willie Mays 92 Cubs
Ruth is also at #14 (90, Red Sox) and #15 (89, Senators), giving him 7 of history's top 15 spots.Most Career Home Runs For Each Month
May Ken Griffey Jr. 134 ( 1 more than Babe Ruth) June Hank Aaron 150 ( 9 more than Babe Ruth) July Hank Aaron 152 ( 5 more than Babe Ruth) August Barry Bonds 148 (15 more than Alex Rodriguez; Ruth hit 124 (#6)) Sept/Oct Barry Bonds 128 ( 7 more than Babe Ruth)While Ruth does not hold the record for any single month, but he is #2 in 4 of the 5 full months in which games have been played.
Ruth does unfairly lose a September (1918). Had 11 dongs that year but none after June 30th.
ReplyDeleteTrue. I found that odd, that he went two entire months without an official dong (despite slugging a fair amount (especially July 6-19: 1.408 OPS: 7 singles, 6 doubles, 7 triples).
ReplyDeleteRuth did hit a game-winning, bottom-of-the-tenth dong in a scoreless tie at Fenway on July 8, but because there was a runner on first base, he got credit for only a triple. That rule was changed a couple of years later.
When The Baseball Encyclopedia was first coming out in 1969, it was decided to change all those down-graded home runs before the rule change (there were 38, I think) to actual home runs. So Ruth had 715 career HRs for about six weeks until some members of the committee changed their mind in a re-vote, not wanting to alter such an iconic number (and so knowingly keeping a historically wrong number on the books), and only some players (none of which were named Babe Ruth) got credit for their dongs.
Free agency, expansion, and interleague play make Ruth's HR vs Team records basically untouchable.
ReplyDeleteRuth played about 350 games against 6 of the 8 AL teams (347 or more against them, 293 against Boston, and 52 against the Yankees). I can't find a semi-recent (1980-ish to present) player who broke 300 against any team. Captain Intangibles is the closest I found with 291 against the Orioles. Oddly, Albert Pujols is pretty close to 300 against the Astros and only the Astros (280 against them, 182 is his next best against the Cubs) because they changed leagues around the same time he did. Ripken 246 vs Yankees. Biggio 268 vs Reds, Bonds 274 vs Dodgers, Rickey barely broke 200 because he played all over. And these are all guys who played hundreds more total games than Ruth, but he still ends up with ~20% more games against those 6 teams than they managed against anyone.