{"id":256372,"date":"2025-09-26T15:09:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256372\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:09:18","slug":"last-night-in-baseball-eugenio-suarez-goes-yard-is-1-homer-from-mlb-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256372\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Night in Baseball: Eugenio Suarez Goes Yard, is 1 Homer From MLB History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is always baseball happening \u2014 almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from the weekend in Major League Baseball<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Su\u00e1rez is one homer shy of MLB history<\/p>\n

This is Last Night in Baseball, yes, but given we are heading into the last weekend of the season, it\u2019s also “Stuff to Watch Out For These Next Few nights\u2026 in Baseball.” We\u2019re workshopping the name, alright?<\/p>\n

Anyway! Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> hit his 49th home run of the season on Thursday night. It\u2019s easy to forget just how many dingers he\u2019s swatted this season given that he\u2019s teammates with Cal Raleigh<\/a>, MLB\u2019s league leader in the long ball thanks to mashing 60 of the things, but Su\u00e1rez\u2019s season is meaningful, too.<\/p>\n

There have been just 34 players to ever hit 50 homers in a season, with 11 of those hitting 50 at least twice, which accounts for the bulk of those campaigns. Su\u00e1rez would make it 35 should he hit one more homer in his three remaining games \u2014 he previously missed by one dinger back in 2017 with the Reds<\/a>. But there\u2019s more to consider than that! Should he reach 50, he and Raleigh will become just the second-ever teammates to hit 50 home runs in the same season, joining Mickey Mantle (54) and Roger Maris (61) on the 1961 Yankees<\/a>. Sure, Su\u00e1rez began the year with the Diamondbacks<\/a>, but he has 13 homers in 50 games with the Mariners<\/a>, so it\u2019s not as if he did all the work in Arizona before he arrived.<\/p>\n

Even more significant, however, is what this would mean for 2025 as a whole. The MLB record for 50-homer players in a single season is four, in a three-way tie between 1998 (Greg Vaughn, Ken Griffey Jr., Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire), 2001 (Alex Rodriguez, Luis Gonzalez<\/a>, Sosa, Barry Bonds) and 2025 (Aaron Judge<\/a>, Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, Kyle Schwarber<\/a>, Raleigh). Su\u00e1rez would make a record five players.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your team out of it, but you want something to root for this weekend? You could do a lot worse than cheering on Su\u00e1rez against the Dodgers<\/a>\u2019 bullpen while Raleigh aims for\u00a0the AL home run record<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Reds are still in this thing!<\/p>\n

The Reds might have lost to the Pirates<\/a> in the first two games of their series, but on Thursday they finally pulled out a W to keep pace with the Mets<\/a> \u2014 and on the night New York remembered they were also allowed to win ballgames in this final week. They can thank Noelvi Marte<\/a> for that one. You don\u2019t get much more timely than robbing a game-tying home run in the ninth inning.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t pretty \u2014 that ball hung up there, and that fence is tall \u2014 but Marte pulled in Bryan Reynolds<\/a>\u2019 would-be homer, anyway, keeping Cincinnati just one game back of New York for the NL\u2019s final wild card.<\/p>\n

Remember: the Reds don\u2019t need to pass the Mets to take that wild card from them and boot them from the postseason picture. They just need to tie them, as Cincy possesses the tiebreaker. Now they have to worry about the Brewers<\/a>, the team with MLB\u2019s best record, in the final weekend, though. That tiebreaker might end up being the reason the Reds can sneak in at all.<\/p>\n

Blue Jays avoid sweep<\/p>\n

The Blue Jays<\/a> dropped the first two games of the series to the Red Sox<\/a>, but on Thursday rebounded to avoid being swept, which also allowed them to keep pace with the Yankees atop the AL East. It was an emphatic victory, too: Daulton Varsho<\/a> hit a grand slam in the sixth inning, snapping a 0-0 tie\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026and then George Springer<\/a> followed that up with a long ball of his own. His 31st homer of the year put the Jays up 6-0.<\/p>\n

That would be all the offense that Toronto needed, as they limited Boston\u2019s offense to just the one run. The Jays now take on the Rays<\/a> in their final three games of 2025, while the Yankees face the Orioles<\/a>. New York needs to outplay Toronto this weekend, as it\u2019s the Blue Jays that hold the head-to-head tiebreaker that will award them the AL East and the Yankees the top wild card seed, should the two tie.<\/p>\n

The Rockies are in trouble<\/p>\n

You knew that, as far as 2025 is concerned. The Rockies<\/a> have been bad since the season began. Before it, even, since this is their third year in a row with at least 101 losses. Historically speaking, though, things are not great for them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They were just swept by the Mariners, dropping them to 116 losses \u2014 that\u2019s the fifth-most losses in the modern era, which stretches back to 1901. If they lose one more, the Rockies will be tied for the fourth-most losses with the 1916 Philadelphia Athletics. Two more, and they take over fourth place for themselves. And if they lose all three of their remaining games, Colorado will move into a tie with the 2003 Tigers<\/a> for the third-most losses since 1901. Their .270 winning percentage would rank as the eighth-worst since 1901, as well: they have to sweep the Giants<\/a> this weekend to avoid being at least in a tie for 10th (and that\u2019s only a tie if you round up \u2014 the Rockies would be at .2777777, etc., while the \u201842 Phillies<\/a> were at .278, owing to playing in fewer games). Should the Rockies be swept, they\u2019ll move into a tie for seventh with the \u201803 Tigers.<\/p>\n

The Rockies have a run differential of -416 as they head into the final weekend of the 2025 season. That\u00a0is the worst of the modern era, as the now-second place team, the 1932 Red Sox, posted a -345 mark. The Rockies also recently became just the 12th team since 1901 to allow at least 1,000 runs in a season: they are at 1,007 allowed through Thursday, and, if they give up another 15 runs over the weekend, will move into the top 10. Which would mean every single team in the top 10, besides Colorado, would have played a season in the high-offense 1990s or 1930s, the absolute peak offensive eras for MLB. Offense is not at anywhere near those levels league-wide these days\u2026 unless a team is facing Rockies\u2019 pitchers, anyway.<\/p>\n

Lindor goes 30-30<\/p>\n

Not only did the Mets win to keep their postseason hopes alive, but Francisco Lindor<\/a> reached the vaunted 30 home run, 30 stolen base mark for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n

Lindor is the fifth player to reach the 30-30 threshold in 2025, and, per\u00a0Sarah Langs<\/a>, that\u2019s the most-ever in MLB history. Lindor joins teammate Juan Soto<\/a> (43-36), Guardians<\/a>\u2019 third baseman Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a> (30-40), Diamondbacks right fielder Corbin Carroll<\/a> (31-32) and Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm (31-31) in the club. There might be a sixth and even a seventh, too, depending on the weekends of Julio Rodrigruez and Pete Crow-Armstrong: the former already has 32 homers, but just 28 steals, while Crow-Armstrong is at 29-35. Randy Arozarena<\/a> is more of a longshot, at 27-29, but it\u2019s at least possible!<\/p>\n

Also per\u00a0Langs<\/a>, this is just the third time in MLB history \u2014 but second time for the Mets \u2014 that a pair of teammates put up 30-30 seasons. Dante Bichette and Ellis Burks pulled it off in 1996 for the Rockies, while it was Howard Johnson and Darryl Strawberry on the 1987 Mets.<\/p>\n

Ohtani matches a career-best<\/p>\n

Shohei Ohtani hit his 54th home run of the season on Thursday, which accomplished two things: it put him within two homers of NL leader Kyle Schwarber, and it tied him with his 2024 season, which serves as both a career-high and the Dodgers\u2019 franchise-best mark.<\/p>\n

One more changes both of those numbers, and two more might net him a tie for the National League lead. Of course, Schwarber could hit his own dingers, too, and his would be notable for more than “just” the Senior Circuit lead. Schwarber is chasing Ryan Howard\u2019s 58 home runs from 2006, which currently stands as the most in a season in Phillies\u2019 history.<\/p>\n

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