Thomas hits 500th career home run
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Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run Thursday, routinely putting his head down as he rounded the bases while joining one of baseball's most elite clubs.
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Alex Rodriguez hit his 34th home run this season and the 498th of his career, one of the many offensive highlights Sunday during the Yankeesâ thrashing of the Devil Rays.
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The Knicks are right on pace to finish the first 20 games with a .500 record after last night&#39;s 96-88 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies, which is right where team president Isiah Thomas predicted they would be.
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Frank Thomas put an emphatic end to a three-week power outage. Thomas homered twice to raise his total to 503 and pull within one of Eddie Murray for 20th place as the Blue Jays sent Johan Santana to a rare second-half loss, beating the Minnesota Twins, 6-4, last night in Toronto.
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Frank Thomas hit a walkoff two-run homer for the seventh home run of the game, lifting the Oakland Athletics to a 7-5 victory Thursday night and snapping the Los Angeles Angels&#039; season-best five-game winning streak.
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Nick Swisher hit a grand slam and Frank Thomas also homered to help the AL-West leading Oakland Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Devil Rays 8-6 on Friday night.
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Barry Bonds tied Hank Aaron's National League's home run record, hitting his 733rd Friday night.
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Barry Bonds hit his 750th career home run Friday night, pulling the San Francisco slugger within five of tying Hank Aaron's record.
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Alex Rodriguez, Frank Thomas, Manny Ram&#xED;rez, and Jim Thome all could join the 500-home run club this season (with Gary Sheffield having an outside shot).
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New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 450 home runs when he hit one Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays.
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The Giants' Barry Bonds hit his 731st career home run yesterday in San Francisco, pulling the slugger within 24 of tying home run king Hank Aaron 's record 755.
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The Yankees' Alex Rodriguez hit his major league-leading 50th and 51st home runs last night, connecting in consecutive at-bats on 3-1 counts against RHP Brian Bannister in an 11-5 rout of the Royals.
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CHICAGO (Sports Network) - Chicago White Sox slugger Frank  Thomas will remain with the team for 2005 after he exercised an  $8 million option in his contract.
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Jason Kendall hit his first home run in nearly two years and Frank Thomas hit No. 459 of his career Wednesday in the Oakland Athletics&#039; 7-0 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
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Rick Pitino's 500th career victory looked an awful lot like the 499 that came before it.
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With two robust swings on Tuesday, Frank Thomas almost single-handedly negated the Minnesota TwinsÂ Johan Santana/Metrodome advantage in this American League division series.
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Frank Thomas couldn't take part in Chicago's World Series run a year ago. Now he's doing his best to prevent the White Sox from making a bid for a second straight title. Thomas dealt another big blow to his former team's dwindling playoff hopes, hitting a three-run homer Sunday to help the Oakland Athletics beat Chicago 5-4.