This Day In Baseball
History: August 27, 2000
It was on this date in 2000 that
Anaheim Angels right-fielder, Tim Salmon, hit a home run off of Cleveland
Indians pitcher, Chuck Finley, in the fifth inning of the Angels’ 10-9 victory
at Edison Field in Anaheim, to give him 30 home runs on the season. This made
MLB history in that the Angels became the first team in American League history
to have four players hit 30 or more home runs in the same season.
The season totals would wind up
being third baseman Troy Glaus (47), first baseman Mo Vaughn (36),
centre-fielder Garrett Anderson (35) and Salmon (34). The Toronto Blue Jays
would become the second A.L. team to do it later in the year (Carlos Delgado,
Tony Batista, Brad Fullmer and Jose Cruz Jr.), while the Chicago White Sox
would do it in 2006 (Jermaine Dye, Jim Thome, Paul Konerko and Joe Crede).
It has happened in the National
League nine times: Los Angeles (1977, 1997), Colorado (1995, 1996, 1997, 1999),
Atlanta (1998), Chicago (2004) and Philadelphia (2009).
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