Red hot A-Rod blasts his 50th home run
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Alex Rodriguez became the first Yankees player to reach 50 home runs since Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961 with a 2-run shot to center field off Kansas City Royals starter Brian Bannister in the fourth inning on Saturday night.
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Giants LF 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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Barry Bonds hit his 726th home run Tuesday night, pulling within 29 of Hank Aaron's career record.
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Ryan Howard tied Philadelphia's single-season record with his major league-leading 48th home run Tuesday night, helping the Phillies to a 10-6 win over the Washington Nationals.
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Atlanta -- Hammerin&#39; Hank Aaron was at the game. Boomin&#39; Barry Bonds was on his game. In the homers hub of the universe, the residence of the all-time champ, the past and future came together Sunday night
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Aided by a majestic three-run home run by Alex Rodriguez and three hits and three runs batted in by Gary Sheffield, Jon Lieber won for the first time since Aug. 13.
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Ryan Howard slammed a pair of home   runs to lift his major league-leading total to 56 and help the   Philadelphia Phillies beat the Florida Marlins 3-2 on Friday.
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Adrian Beltre hit a grand slam to become the first player to reach 40 home runs this season, leading the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 10-2 victory over the Montreal Expos on Tuesday night. His previous career high for homers was 23, set last season.
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Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player to reach 450 home runs, but committed his team-leading 18th error in the New York Yankees' 7-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday night.
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A big home run by Ruben Sierra, a clutch 11th-inning hit by Alex Rodriguez and the Yankees are headed right back where most people figured.
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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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Sammy Sosa hit career home run No. 601, the first of three homers the Texas Rangers hit in an eight-run fifth inning outburst en route to a 11-3 victory over the Houston Astros on Friday night.
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Ryan Newman and his No. 12 Dodge blew past Tony Stewart on the final lap and held on to win the 50th running of the Daytona 500.
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Barry Bonds crept closer to the magic number with a majestic two-run homer and Edgardo Alfonzo collected five hits, scored four runs, and drove in two runs
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Derek Jeter tied a postseason record for hits in a game, going 5 for 5 and capping his night with a home run over the center-field wall in the eighth inning.
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That&#39;s more than any other baseball player except Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron. Pretty good company there. It was an accomplishment to be celebrated, and in San Francisco, they did.
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Alex Rodriguez rejoined the Yankees' lineup and showed off All-Star form Friday night, hitting a home run that tied him with Lou Gehrig on the career list and leading New York to a wild 14-9 win over the Los Angeles Angels.