Aaron Decide hits file 62nd house run, breaking tie with Roger Maris

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Decide clubbed his 62nd house run of the yr Tuesday night time in Texas, making him baseball’s best single-season long-ball hitter — exterior of MLB’s infamous steroid period.

Decide’s memorable blast got here within the first inning, off Rangers pitcher Jesus Tinoco, within the nightcap of a doubleheader at Globe Life Discipline in Arlington.

Tuesday’s homer broke a tie with Roger Maris, who hit 61 photographs in 1961, for probably the most hit in a single American League season.

Decide had tied Maris’ file with a roundtrip shot in Toronto on Wednesday. He is now alone in seventh place for many homers hit in anybody season.

However Decide’s achievement could solely stand as a file within the hearts and minds of purist baseball followers.

All of the record-holders forward of Decide are Nationwide League sluggers who did their harm within the late ’90s and early 2000s, when it was extensively believed among the finest hitters and pitchers used performance-enhancing medication.

MLB didn’t droop gamers for steroid use till 2005. By that time, Maris’ mark of 61 had been topped six occasions in simply 4 seasons (1998-2001) by Chicago Cubs outfielder Sammy Sosa, San Francisco Giants outfielder Barry Bonds and St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Mark McGwire.