50 Home Run seasons: by Batting Order Positions (BOP).

At least 50 Home Runs (HR) for American League (AL) and National League (NL) seasons 1920-2021. Babe Ruth was the first to hit 50 HR: 54 in 1920, his first with the New York Yankees. Ruth is the only one to hit a HR as a pitcher in a 50 HR season: 1921 with the Yankees; Ruth hit two HR in that game but only the third inning HR came while the Babe was still on the mound; Ruth then moved to center field.

Monday, June 13, 1921

Attendance: 12,000

Venue: Polo Grounds V

Day Game, on grass

Yankees 13, Tigers 8

HR: Babe Ruth 2 (21, 2 off Howard Ehmke, 3rd inn, 0 on, 0 outs to RF; 7th inn, 1 on, 2 outs to CF)

Pitching	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA	BF	GSc	IR	IS	WPA	aLI	cWPA	acLI	RE24
Babe Ruth, W (1-0)	5	5	4	3	7	1	0	5.40	28	37			-0.014	0.94	-0.04%	4.60	-2.1
Carl Mays	2	5	3	3	0	0	0	2.20	11		2	0	0.051	0.41	0.15%	2.02	0.2
Alex Ferguson, S (1)	2	3	1	1	0	0	0	4.89	9		2	2	0.010	0.11	0.03%	0.56	-0.8
Team Totals	9	13	8	7	7	1	0	7.00	48	37	4	2	0.047	0.67	0.14%	3.27	-2.7

Yankee Aaron Judge hit 52 HR in his 2017 rookie season, 13 batting #2. Judge has hit 29 HR in 2022 his team's first 77 games (56-21). That's half the 154 game schedule through 1960. Judge may well hit 50 HR again in 2022. He has a shot at the AL records:

60 by Babe Ruth in 1927 in the 154 game schedule.

61 by Roger Maris in 1961, the first 162 game season; NL joined in 1962.

60 Home Runs in 154 games: Ruth yes. Maris no. Bonds, McGwire, Sosa? Monday, June 12, 2017

In 2022 Judge has hit three HR batting leadoff and 26 HR batting second. That seemed unusual for a 50 HR hitter and led to this post.

Aaron Judge batted leadoff six times in 2022 ... so far. Shouldn't he bat third? Saturday, June 18, 2022

Click this link to view the file with the data. There are three tabs:

Final sorted by home runs descending, then by year ascending:

Player	HR	Season	Age	Team	Lg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	HR	Player	BOP	P
Barry Bonds	73	2001	36	SFG	NL			66	6					1	73	Barry Bonds	3
Mark McGwire	70	1998	34	STL	NL	1		69							70	Mark McGwire	2
Sammy Sosa	66	1998	29	CHC	NL			49	17						66	Sammy Sosa	2
Mark McGwire	65	1999	35	STL	NL			65							65	Mark McGwire	1
Sammy Sosa	64	2001	32	CHC	NL			59	5						64	Sammy Sosa	2
Sammy Sosa	63	1999	30	CHC	NL			31	32						63	Sammy Sosa	2
Roger Maris	61	1961	26	NYY	AL			57	2			2			61	Roger Maris	3
Babe Ruth	60	1927	32	NYY	AL			60							60	Babe Ruth	1
Babe Ruth	59	1921	26	NYY	AL			59							59	Babe Ruth	1	1
Giancarlo Stanton	59	2017	27	MIA	NL		47	1	11						59	Giancarlo Stanton	3
Jimmie Foxx	58	1932	24	PHA	AL					58					58	Jimmie Foxx	1
Hank Greenberg	58	1938	27	DET	AL				40	8	10				58	Hank Greenberg	3
Mark McGwire	58	1997	33	OAK,STL	AL,NL			20	37				1		58	Mark McGwire	3
Ryan Howard	58	2006	26	PHI	NL				27	25	4			2	58	Ryan Howard	4
Luis Gonzalez	57	2001	52	ARI	NL			57							57	Luis Gonzalez	1
Álex Rodríguez	57	2002	26	TEX	AL			55	2						57	Álex Rodríguez	2
Hack Wilson	56	1930	30	CHC	NL				56						56	Hack Wilson	1
Ken Griffey Jr.	56	1997	27	SEA	AL			56							56	Ken Griffey Jr.	1
Ken Griffey Jr.	56	1998	28	SEA	AL			56							56	Ken Griffey Jr.	1
Babe Ruth	54	1920	25	NYY	AL			15	39						54	Babe Ruth	2
Babe Ruth	54	1928	33	NYY	AL			49	5						54	Babe Ruth	2
Ralph Kiner	54	1949	26	PIT	NL			15	39						54	Ralph Kiner	2
Mickey Mantle	54	1961	29	NYY	AL				54						54	Mickey Mantle	1
David Ortiz	54	2006	30	BOS	AL			54							54	David Ortiz	1
Álex Rodríguez	54	2007	31	NYY	AL				54						54	Álex Rodríguez	1
José Bautista	54	2010	29	TOR	AL	1		35	1	3	4	10			54	José Bautista	6
Chris Davis	53	2013	27	BAL	AL			8	7	38					53	Chris Davis	3
Pete Alonso	53	2019	24	NYM	NL		26	15	11					1	53	Pete Alonso	4
Mickey Mantle	52	1956	24	NYY	AL			43	9						52	Mickey Mantle	1
Willie Mays	52	1965	34	SFG	NL			36	16						52	Willie Mays	2
George Foster	52	1977	28	CIN	NL				32	14	6				52	George Foster	3
Mark McGwire	52	1996	32	OAK	AL		1		51						52	Mark McGwire	2
Álex Rodríguez	52	2001	25	TEX	AL			52							52	Álex Rodríguez	1
Jim Thome	52	2002	31	CLE	AL				52						52	Jim Thome	1
Aaron Judge	52	2017	25	NYY	AL		13	17	1	8	7	6			52	Aaron Judge	6
Ralph Kiner	51	1947	24	PIT	NL			6	41		4				51	Ralph Kiner	3
Johnny Mize	51	1947	34	NYG	NL				51						51	Johnny Mize	1
Willie Mays	51	1955	24	NYG	NL			36	2	11	2				51	Willie Mays	4
Cecil Fielder	51	1990	26	DET	AL		2	3	36	5	5				51	Cecil Fielder	5
Andruw Jones	51	2005	28	ATL	NL			38	10	1	2				51	Andruw Jones	4
Jimmie Foxx	50	1938	30	BOS	AL			32	18						50	Jimmie Foxx	2
Albert Belle	50	1995	28	CLE	AL				50						50	Albert Belle	1
Brady Anderson	50	1996	32	BAL	AL	35	15								50	Brady Anderson	2
Greg Vaughn	50	1998	32	SDP	NL			6	23	18	3				50	Greg Vaughn	4
Sammy Sosa	50	2000	31	CHC	NL			30	20						50	Sammy Sosa	2
Prince Fielder	50	2007	23	MIL	NL			13	37						50	Prince Fielder	2
Player	HR	Season	Age	Team	Lg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	HR	Player	BOP	P

Leaders:

BOP	Innings	HR
1	Anderson	35
2	Stanton	47
3	McGwire	69
4	Wilson	56
5	Foxx	58
6	Greenberg	10
7	Bautista	10
8	McGwire	1
9	Howard	2
	BOP
	Bautista	6
	Judge	6
	Pitching
	Ruth	1

Bautista and Judge hit HR in six BOP. They may have batted in others but homered only in six.

In 2022 Judge has a shot at the record for most hit at BOP #2: 47 by Stanton, now a teammate of Judge.

73-50 Matrix sorted by home runs descending, then horizontally by year ascending (horizontal numbers 1-7 are merely a count):

HR	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
73	Bonds
72
71
70	McGwire
69
68
67
66	Sosa
65	McGwire
64	Sosa
63	Sosa
62
61	Maris
60	Ruth
59	Ruth	Stanton
58	Foxx	Greenberg	McGwire	Howard
57	Gonzalez	Rodriguez
56	Wilson	Griffey	Griffey
55
54	Ruth	Ruth	Kiner	Mantle	Ortiz	Rodriguez	Bautista
53	Davis	Alonso
52	Mantle	Mays	Foster	McGwire	Rodriguez	Thome	Judge
51	Kiner	Mize	Mays	C. Fielder	Jones
50	Foxx	Belle	Anderson	Vaughn	Sosa	P. Fielder
	1	2	3	4	5	6	7

54 and 52 have been most frequently: seven each. 54 has Ruth twice. 52 has no repeats.

Note: The first two to finish a season with 51 home runs were Pirate Ralph Kiner and Giant Johnny Mize in 1947 in the National League. Here's how the tie was broken: Kiner hit #51 first:

Tuesday, September 23, 1947

Attendance: 10,330

Venue: Forbes Field

Game Duration: 2:32

Night Game, on grass

Cardinals 8, Pirates 4

HR: Ralph Kiner (51); no play by play but off Jim Hearn according to Kiner's HR log.

Pirates were 61-89 (150 games)

Thursday, September 25, 1947

Attendance: 1,705

Venue: Braves Field

Game Duration: 1:30

Day Game, on grass

Giants 3, Braves 1

HR: Johnny Mize (51, off Si Johnson, 9th inn, 0 on, 0 outs to RF).

Giants were 80-70 (150 games)

Cool, right?