On the penultimate day of the AL season, the Yankees broke a Major League team record that stood for 20 years:
Gleyber Torres and Giancarlo Stanton connected as the New York Yankees broke the major league record for home runs in a season and reached 100 wins with an 8-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.
Torres’ two-run drive in the fourth was the Yankees’ 265th of the year and moved them past the 1997 Seattle Mariners for the mark.
Stanton pushed the record to 266 in the seventh with his 38th homer, a solo homer to left field. A fan sitting in the seats above the Green Monster threw the souvenir back, and the ball bounced into Stanton as he rounded second base.
The Yankees started off the expansion era setting a record of 240 home runs in a season, playing a 162 game schedule for the first time. It would stand until 1996, when three teams passed that mark. Between 1996 and 2005 inclusive, 11 teams would pass the 240 home run barrier. The Yankees are the sixth team to accomplish that level since then, and this is the third year in a row a team passed 240 home runs. Players appear to be catching up to the home run hitting power of the steroid era without the drugs.
from baseballmusings.com https://ift.tt/2OZ5sS6
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