Home Runs Times Facing Opponent: Ruth, Maris, Bonds, ...

Times Facing Opponent in Game for season home run record holders Babe Ruth, Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa (held record during 1998), Barry Bonds ... and Joe DiMaggio.

				SP 1	SP 2	SP 3	SP 4+	RP 1	RP 2	RP 3+
Year	First	Last	HRtot	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR	HR
1927	Babe	Ruth	60	16	7	11	12	5	7	2
1961	Roger	Maris	61	8	23	5	9	11	4	1
1998	Mark	McGwire	70	11	19	9	1	29	1	0
1998	Sammy	Sosa	66	13	12	16	2	22	1	0
2001	Barry	Bonds	73	13	22	13	4	19	2	0
1937	Joe	DiMaggio	46	6	3	16	13	6	1	1

	SP 1	SP 2	SP 3	SP 4+	RP 1	RP 2	RP 3+
Last	%tot	%tot	%tot	%tot	%tot	%tot	%tot
Ruth	26.67%	11.67%	18.33%	20.00%	8.33%	11.67%	3.33%
Maris	13.11%	37.70%	8.20%	14.75%	18.03%	6.56%	1.64%
McGwire	15.71%	27.14%	12.86%	1.43%	41.43%	1.43%	0.00%
Sosa	19.70%	18.18%	24.24%	3.03%	33.33%	1.52%
Bonds	17.81%	30.14%	17.81%	5.48%	26.03%	2.74%
DiMaggio	13.04%	6.52%	34.78%	28.26%	13.04%	2.17%	2.17%

Sosa and Bonds had no plate appearances facing a relief pitcher a third time in a game. McGwire had only one. Obviously DiMaggio was included with the record breakers because of the very high percent of his home runs hit against starting pitchers facing them the third and fourth time in a game.

		SP	RP	SP	RP
Last	HRtot	HR	HR	%tot	%tot
Ruth	60	46	14	76.67%	23.33%
Maris	61	45	16	73.77%	26.23%
McGwire	70	40	30	57.14%	42.86%
Sosa	66	43	23	65.15%	34.85%
Bonds	73	52	21	71.23%	28.77%
DiMaggio	46	38	8	82.61%	17.39%

Babe Ruth and Roger Maris home run distribution in 60 and 61 homer seasons. Monday, July 8, 2019 11:01 AM