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Rick went 6 1/3 and Paul finished out the shutout, the first ever by two brothers. Our primary concern in this article will be on brothers where more than one made a significant contribution and more specifically where brothers compiled impressive combined statistics. One way to get a handle on this subject is to treat separately the pitcher-catcher combinations, the brothers who were both pitchers, and those who were non-pitchers. Lip Pike led the league with four home runs in 1877, tied with Paul Hines for the lowest total to ever lead a league. Babe Ruth was first or second in the American League in home runs for every season from 1918 through 1933 except 1922 and set the single-season home run record four times. Listed below in ALPHABETICAL order is EVERY set of brothers in Major League Baseball history, as researched by Baseball Almanac.
There have been 15 brother batteries on the same major league team since 1876. A number of these made little more than token appearances, but we will cite the full list for the record. This may tend to downgrade somewhat those combinations where one brother was a pitcher and the other an infielder or outfielder. Now, if Wild Bill Donovan and Patsy Donovan had been brothers, the combined credentials would be pretty impressive. The SABR Biographical Research Committee has reaffirmed that Bill and Patsy were NOT brothers.
Sammy Sosa, 1998: 66 Homers
There have been 10 different seasons with a player producing at least 12.0 fWAR in baseball history. He’s the only player not named Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, or Rogers Hornsby to be on this list. And yes, his 73 homers are an outlier since he never hit more than 49 in any other season. But it’s not like he wasn’t already a prolific home run hitter.
Judge will likely get a day off in the season's final day before the Yankees start their World Series chase in the ALDS next week.
Where is an all time list of home runs by brothers?
There have been just two teams to hit 300-plus homers in a season in MLB history. It not only happened in the same year, but they finished separated by just one dinger. The Twins have been dominated by the Yankees in many ways since the turn of the century. Beating them out on this list doesn’t erase all the postseason disappointments, but it’s better than nothing. Hall of Famer George was the younger brother, and he led the way with a .305 average and 317 homers in a 21-year career in Kansas City.
When Mickey Mantle retired after the 1968 season, he was third on the all time list for Home runs with 536 behind Babe Ruth 714, and Willie Mays 583. Babe Ruth is third on the all time career home run list with 714. Dom, Vince and Joe DiMaggio totaled 573 home runs, and Jose and Ozzie Canseco have 462; Ozzie didn't hit any. The only two brothers to win batting titles were Dixie Walker, who hit .357 with the Dodgers in 1944, and Harry, who hit .363 with the Cards and Phils in 1947. Similarly, the only brothers to win RBI titles were Emil Meusel with the New York Giants in 1923, and Bob with the New York Yankees in 1925. The Perry brothers faced each other only once, on July 3, 1973, when Jim was with the Tigers and Gaylord with the Indians.
Corey Seager & Kyle Seager, climbing the brothers home run list
There were three DiMaggio brothers, and the oldest was actually the least talented. Vince played in 10 seasons but was most successful when his younger brothers were off at war. He did drive in 100 runs for the Pirates in 1941, which was the year Hall of Famer Joe was the AL MVP, with the famous 56-game hitting streak, a record that might never be broken. Joe, of course, was one of the greatest Yankees of all time, hitting .325 in a 13-year career.
It also happened to be one of those unusual games where each brother connected, as Wes belted one off Henry Johnson. Then there was Gaylord Perry, 40 years old, a Cy Young Award winner like his brother Jim, who is adding to the pitching laurels of baseball's best family pitching duo. Baltimore’s only other 30-homer hitter was Rafael Palmeiro, who slugged 39 taters.
Who is in third place on the home runs list?
In a game between the Cards and Giants on September 24, 1922, Hornsby completed a record NL home run year by hitting his 41st off Jesse and his 42nd off Virgil. Ironically, Wes the pitcher hit more lifetime home runs than Rick did in his long career . However, on July 19, 1933, when Rick was with the Red Sox, he hit a fourbagger off Wes. This was one of the rare instances when one brother connected off another.
They were together five years, being traded from the Red Sox to the Senators midway in the 1937 season. They had a couple of interesting experiences while they were playing for different teams. On April 29, 1931, Wes pitched a no-hitter for the Indians over the Browns. Rick was the St. Louis catcher and he smacked a ball off his brother which some thought was a hit.
However, it was officially ruled an error and Wes had his no-hitter. And just like that, we have another squad with two hitters who slugged 40-plus homers. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. enjoyed a powerful breakout with 48 homers, while Marcus Semien’s 45 homers broke a single season record for second basemen. The guys who led the way were Nelson Cruz , Max Kepler , Miguel Sano , Eddie Rosario , and Mitch Garver .
Matt Chapman and Matt Olson, the A's co-stars, fittingly tied for the team lead, with Olson averaging a homer for every 13 at-bats after he came off the injured list in early May. Cody Bellinger got off to the hottest of starts, setting a Major League record with 14 homers before May 1 to launch himself into the NL MVP conversation. The start of the 1979 season served as a good reminder of the interesting and significant role brothers have played in major league baseball. First there was Jesus Alou, back for his 15th season in the Big Time. This gives the three Alou brothers a record 47 manyears in the majors. An automatic home run is achieved by hitting the ball on the fly over the outfield fence in fair territory.
The Ferrells and Coopers were easily the top brother batteries in major league history. Will White was almost a one-man mound staff for the Red Stockings in 1879 when he started a record 75 games and completed all of them. Actually, Deacon Jim caught only 59 of those games because he also played in the outfield and at first base. In fact, Jim caught no games in 1880, and after that spent much of his time at third base.
Actually that never happened until major league baseball was nearly 50 years old. While he’s tied it once, those 37 homers in ’16 remains a single-season career-high mark for Machado as he enters 2023. Despite playing with a homer-friendly left field at Camden Yards, the third baseman hit more homers on the road than he did at home . Just a shade over 40% of Machado’s homers came in the final two months. He slugged 15 from August 1st through the end of the regular season. He hit 15 at home and 16 on the road, as well as 17 in the first half and 14 more after the All-Star Game.
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