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Baltimore Orioles infielder Jonathan Villar belted a three-run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Caleb Ferguson on Wednesday, the record-breaking 6,106th homer of the major league season. A solo shot from Oakland A's shortstop Marcus Semien off Houston Astros rookie right-hander Jose Urquidy tied the mark before Villar's blast. Already this season, the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees have surpassed the single-season team mark, which was the 267 homers socked by the 2018 Yankees. Continue to Article

September 12, 2019 1:36:am EST

Baltimore Orioles infielder Jonathan Villar belted a three-run home run off Los Angeles Dodgers left-hander Caleb Ferguson on Wednesday, the record-breaking 6,106th homer of the major league season. A solo shot from Oakland A's shortstop Marcus Semien off Houston Astros rookie right-hander Jose Urquidy tied the mark before Villar's blast. Already this season, the Minnesota Twins and the New York Yankees have surpassed the single-season team mark, which was the 267 homers socked by the 2018 Yankees. Continue to Article

September 11, 2019 10:44:pm EST

Turns out Hinch was one to watch, and his time working in the NL West with the Diamondback and the Padres before heading to Houston gave me many years to get to know him. It was really fun for me to interview him. I knew he loved the Bay Area, but wasn't from here. Continue to Article

September 11, 2019 9:57:pm EST

Matt Olson and Sean Murphy recorded multi-homer games, and the Oakland Athletics made amends for a blowout loss in the opener of a four-game series at Houston with a 21-7 dismantling of the Astros on Tuesday. Olson set a single-season high with his 30th and 31st home runs while Murphy posted his first career multi-homer game to run his career and season totals to three. The Athletics (85-60) slugged six homers, including three two-run blasts off Astros right-hander Joe Biagini in the fourth inning. Continue to Article

September 10, 2019 11:43:pm EST

Nearly lost amid the Houston Astros' 15-0, six-home run romp over the Oakland Athletics Monday night was a jaw-dropping dinger from rookie first baseman Yordan Álvarez. It wasn't the distance of Álvarez's second homer of the night that was particularly notable, however; the ball travelled 415 feet, per Statcast, short of Álvarez's 429-foot first-inning effort. But it landed in the third deck of Minute Maid Park. Continue to Article

September 10, 2019 7:10:pm EST