Home Run
Home Run is a term used in baseball. It is called a home run if it a batter ( batsman ) to succeed, all four bases expire and reaching home plate to achieve as a result of its own shock a run, so to make a point. It made every other player who is already on one of the bases, also a point.
Achieve in the game
Nowadays, home runs are usually achieved by the ball within the fair Territories over the Outfieldzaun, so the boundaries of the field, is beaten. A rarer and heavier to the batter variant of home runs is the so -called inside-the -park home run. The ball does not leave the playing area and manages the batsman to reach the home base before it succeeds to the defending team, out to make him '. Most often this is achieved if the batter is a very fast runner and the defending team commits a fault or verspringt the ball and the fielder is difficult to reach. If the error is the defender however, counted by the official scorer as error, so you get the batter in question no home run in his statistics added, but this is for the points scored is irrelevant.
There are already one or two bases of runners occupied and the batter hits a home run, two or three points of the runners and the batsman scored and one speaks of a 2 - or 3 -run home run. If all three bases occupied, all four players (the three on base and the batsman ) achieve a run, so each get a point. In such a case one speaks of a Grand Slam. An inside-the -park grand slam is possible, but they require so many factors play together, that they are extremely rare.
The chance of achieving a home run, are slightly different from stadium to stadium, since neither the distance from home plate to the Outfieldzaun the height of the fence are still regulated uniformly.
Records
The record in the Major League for most home runs in a season currently holds Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants. Get him in the 2001 season 73 so -called single -season home runs. Longtime record holder was Babe Ruth, the increased 1919-1927 the record 60 homers in 154 games this season. This was at that time so extraordinary (the previous record was 27 and dated from the year 1884) that the record was considered by many experts and fans as unattainable.
However, this was 34 years later, Roger Maris, who even improved Ruth's record by one home run. For purists, however, remained the stigma that Maris had eight season games longer available; his last two home runs he scored in the regular season games 159 and 161 until 1998 Maris ' record was surpassed, notably, by two players in the same season. Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs drove each other to new heights. McGwire achieved his 62nd home run, ironically, in the game against the Cubs. He finished the season with 70 home runs, Sosa with 66 Bonds ' current record caused far less media attention than the previous two record improvements, on the one hand the public's attention was directed to the terrorist attacks of September 11, on the other hand, the existing record was only three years old.
The record for most home runs in professional baseball over the entire career keeps Sadaharu Oh. On October 12, 1980 the player of the Yomiuri Giants scored his 868th home run. Record holder in the MLB again is Barry Bonds with 762 home runs, surpassing the long-standing record holder Hank Aaron in the 2007 season to seven runs. Of the currently active players is best be trusted Alex Rodriguez to break the MLB record yet. He is after the 2010 season, the active player with the most (613) homeruns. Rodriguez has since 1998, each season can hit at least 30 home runs, on average since 1996, even more than 40 per season.
Special
The number of home runs has been falling for some time; the average of 2.01 per game in 2008 is the lowest since 1993. The maximum value of 2.34 home runs per game dates back to 2000. The decline since then also the increasingly stricter handling of the MLB with doping agents, particularly anabolic steroids, blamed. A special feature is possible at AT & T Park Stadium: it is close to the bay of San Francisco, so that some homers in the McCovey Cove (named after Willie McCovey, players of the Giants from 1959 to 1980 ) flying into the water - a so-called Splash hit.