![]() "Their philosophy overall, a lot of these position players, is to get the ball in the air and also pull the ball and get the ball in the air and hit it as far as you can. "My biggest take on it is that players are trying to hit more home runs," San Francisco manager Bruce Bochy said. The home run average dropped in 2014 to its lowest level since 1992, then started rising during the second half of the 2015 season. Power subsided after the start of drug testing with penalties in 2004. "It really looks like the ball is flying," he said. There sure are a lot of home runs being hit."īlue Jays manager John Gibbons has noticed the surge in homers but doesn't have an explanation. "I don't know what to make of it," Royals manager Ned Yost said. That would be up 47 percent from 4,186 in 2014. ![]() There were 5,610 homers last year, an average of 2.31 per game, and this year's average of 2.53 entering Tuesday's action projects to 6,139. I don't really want to remember too much about this season, so I'll probably just give it away and let them take care of it." "I figured they'd probably have much more reason to have it than I do. "I'm going to give it to Cooperstown," Gordon said. Holding the ball he hit over the right-field wall, Gordon said he didn't plan to keep the historic memento or anything else from the game. "I was kind of aware that we were getting close to it," he said. Gordon said he heard talk of the record on a clubhouse television after Toronto's Darwin Barney homered in the sixth. It was the 17th home run of the night in the major leagues and came just after Detroit's Alex Presley tied the record when he connected at home against Oakland's Daniel Gossett. "I didn't hit many this year, but I guess I made one count." "A pretty cool thing to be a part of," Gordon said. The drive, which drove in the last run in the Royals' 5-2 loss, was his eighth this season and the 159th of his 11-year big league career. ![]() Gordon's home run off Toronto's Ryan Tepera broke a mark set in 2000 at the height of the Steroids Era. TORONTO (AP) - Kansas City's Alex Gordon broke Major League Baseball's season home run record with 12 days to spare, hitting the 5,694th long ball of 2017 on Tuesday night. ![]()
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