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Nurses took the first strike action in their history this week when they staged a walkout on Thursday, with another set for Tuesday and more possible in 2023 if their demands are not met. Ken Griffey Jr. has hit the most home runs in Seattle Mariners franchise history with 417 home runs. Since Jim Crane bought the Rangers in 2011, the team has made significant progress since its inception in 1961.
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He’s taken Clayton Kershaw deep and has 19 career home runs in 594 at-bats — roughly a full season’s worth. Bumgarner’s two best years as a hitter, by far, were 2014 and 2015. He combined for nine home runs and 24 RBI, and hit .252. His .749 OPS was not only superlative for a pitcher, but it also made him an above-average offensive player overall. 47Has hit 7 career home runs, but only 4 while playing in the pitcher position. While Lorenzen sometimes plays outfield, his other 3 home runs were as a pinch hitter.
Ferrell's record has since been broken by Jeff Montgomery, who recorded 42 homers as a pitcher for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals from 2000 to 2001. Another former big leaguer, Scott Erickson, is also among the top 10 highest-home-run-hitting pitchers of all time; he has hit 40 homers in his career. Willis took the league by storm with his Rookie of the Year-winning performance in 2003, going 14-6 and helping lead the Marlins to a World Series in his age-21 season.
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Pitchers hit and, because the modern bullpen plans hadn’t been adopted yet, often entered the batter’s box three to four times per game. Of all the changes that a potential 2020 MLB season will bring, a universal DH — and the end of pitchers hitting home runs — could be among the most divisive. 3121Has 121 career home runs, but 114 of them are as a designated hitter, and 2 are as a pinch hitter.Statistics obtained from MLB.com. He thought about it for a moment, but decided otherwise.
Ryan broke a 40-year-old record for the most pitches thrown in a game when he threw 235 against the Red Sox. Mazara hit the longest home run ever recorded through StatCast, a 553-foot shot. Ryan holds numerous pitching records during his career, which spanned four decades and included stops with the Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Los Angeles Angels, and New York Mets. When he retired from professional baseball in 2001, he had 2,933 strikeouts, which was still the most in the history of the sport.
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The Mariners first game was a 7-0 whitewashing at the hands of the California Angels on April 6, 1977 and it was a portent of things to come for more than the next decade. Seattle would finish last, or next to last, in 10 of its first 13 seasons and not post a winning record until 1991. Nolan Ryan played in one World Series during his 22-year playing career, as a member of the New York Mets in 1969, and he was named the National League’s Most Valuable Player. Ryan is now the president of the Texas Rangers, who won their first National League pennant Friday night. Rangers fans can tell Ryan will be emotional when his team plays.
That same season, he slugged four home runs and finished with an .837 OPS while also managing to hit .254. A move to the American League in 2015 finished him as a hitter, but he made the bottom of the Brewers lineup formidable every time he pitched. Frank Tanana pitched for five different teams in his 21 seasons, his most memorable time coming with the California Angels. In 1977, Tanana led the majors with a 2.54 ERA and earned his second of three All-Star appearances. His worst season with the long ball came in 1984 when he gave up 30. For his career, he was victimized by 448 round-trippers.
Babe Ruth started his major league career as a pitcher before moving to the outfield. Only 14 of his 714 career home runs were hit as a pitcher, however. Griffey, Jr. holds five single-season batting records and an individual career record for the Mariners franchise.
Nolan Ryan struck out Edgar Martinez 53% of the time in his career. In 17% of his at-bats against everyone else, he struck out. Nolan Ryan hits his first home run as an Astro in the third, a three-run shot off Don Sutton. For the first time in MLB history, a home run traveled 499 feet, breaking the previous record of 484. Nomar Mazara, of Cleveland, has broken Nolan Ryan’s record for the longest home run in history, which he set in 1974.
What was most impressive about his hitting prowess was that he did it while having to deal with headhunting opposing pitchers unhappy about his aggressive inside pitching. Bush possessed both an all-time great nickname and some serious chops as a hitter. His career straddled the end of the Dead-ball era, and the beginning of the Live-ball era. When Bush got significant plate appearances in 1921 and 1922, he proved that not only was he not a pushover, but he also was a tough out. Bush hit .325 in 1921 and .326 the following season and then topped both of those years by hitting .339 in 1924. For his career, he finished with a .253 average and seven home runs.
He finished his nine-year career with a .270 average and hit over .300 four separate times in his career. He never showed much power, with only five home runs, but he was a triples machine, with 10 to his credit. If you want to know what it was like watching Babe Ruth in the flesh, Ohtani provided a pretty good facsimile in 2021. The do-it-all Angels star slugged 46 home runs, third-best in the league behind Salvador Perez and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., rapped 26 doubles and even chipped in a league-leading 8 triples. Ohtani led the league with 20 intentional walks, and was unquestionably the most must-see athlete in all of baseball.