Mays 636 of 660
Aaron 713 of 755.
Their teams would have played about 380 games. Mays and Aaron homered in the same game 13 times. In 9 of the 13 games each player hit one home run. Aaron out homered Mays once: 2-1. Mays out homered Aaron three times: 2-1 twice and 4-2 on April 30, 1961 in Milwaukee.
The first of the 13 games was June 22, 1954 at the Polo Grounds in New York. The Giants scored 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th to win 3-2. Mays hit number 21 in the second off NBA player Gene Conley. Aaron hit his 8th in the 4th off Johnny Antonelli to tie the game 1-1.
| mDate | mLast | mHR | mHRcar | mHRy | aLast | aHR | aHRcar | aHRy | MbatTeam | Mopp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-06-22 | Mays | 1 | 45 | 21 | Aaron | 1 | 8 | 8 | NYG | MLN |
| 1955-04-27 | Mays | 1 | 68 | 3 | Aaron | 1 | 15 | 2 | NYG | MLN |
| 1957-06-04 | Mays | 1 | 161 | 9 | Aaron | 1 | 79 | 13 | NYG | MLN |
| 1959-05-03 | Mays | 1 | 218 | 2 | Aaron | 2 | 148 | 8 | SFG | MLN |
| 1960-06-21 (1) | Mays | 1 | 262 | 12 | Aaron | 1 | 195 | 16 | SFG | MLN |
| 1961-04-30 | Mays | 4 | 285 | 6 | Aaron | 2 | 222 | 3 | SFG | MLN |
| 1961-05-13 | Mays | 2 | 287 | 8 | Aaron | 1 | 224 | 5 | SFG | MLN |
| 1961-06-22 | Mays | 2 | 295 | 16 | Aaron | 1 | 232 | 13 | SFG | MLN |
| 1962-07-19 | Mays | 1 | 345 | 26 | Aaron | 1 | 277 | 24 | SFG | MLN |
| 1963-07-03 | Mays | 1 | 384 | 16 | Aaron | 1 | 321 | 23 | SFG | MLN |
| 1966-06-01 | Mays | 1 | 517 | 12 | Aaron | 1 | 415 | 17 | SFG | ATL |
| 1966-09-27 | Mays | 1 | 541 | 36 | Aaron | 1 | 441 | 43 | SFG | ATL |
| 1971-05-08 | Mays | 1 | 634 | 6 | Aaron | 1 | 604 | 12 | SFG | ATL |
After Mays went to the Mets early in 1972, they did not homer in the same game again.
Mays v. Aaron July 22, 2015
3 comments:
Thanks for posting this information on these two all-time greats. I never realized that that Aaron hit 2-HR's in the game that Mays hit 4 HRs. Now that is one game that was definitely worth the price of admission!
I seem to remember a game at Atlanta's Fultom County Stadium maybe 1972 where Aaron and Mays both homered. Tom Seaver hit one farther than either. It was like a 23-7 Mets win. I was there.
I tried confirming the contention above that Mays, Aaron and Seaver all homered in the same game in Atlanta. Here's the link to Seaver's home run log:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/event_hr.fcgi?id=seaveto01&t=b
Seaver hit three in Atlanta, two in 1972. But Mays didn't homer in either as Seaver's Met teammate. Aaron homered in the first game.
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