The Major League home run leaderboard looked quite a bit different by the end of Monday night’s action than it did Monday morning. Christian Yelich, Cody Bellinger and Mike Trout all added to their totals during a wild night of action.
The one thing that didn’t change? Yelich is still atop the chase for the Major League lead, and perhaps the National League MVP.
Cody Bellinger, Christian Yelich and Mike Trout, the top three home run leaders, all homered last night. That is the third time this season that those three players all homered on the same day. The others: April 7 and June 19.@EliasSports
— Jon Heyman (@JonHeyman) August 6, 2019
Yeli strikes
Entering the day, the Brewers’ Yelich led the league with 37 home runs, but the Dodgers’ Bellinger and Angels’ Trout were just one long ball behind.
Yelich took to the offensive, hitting a solo home run in the first inning against the Pirates to give him 38 for the season.
But Trout homered in the sixth inning of the Angels’ loss to Cincinnati to get back within one homer of Yelich.
If he felt the pressure, he didn’t show it, because Yeli went yard again in the ninth inning and now has 39 homers.
Then, in the first inning of the Dodgers’ game on the West Coast against the Cardinals, Bellinger blasted his 37th to tighten the race up once more.
And to make matters even more interesting, Mets rookie Pete Alonso launched No. 35, extending his stay in fourth place and staying close to the leaders.
MLB’s top 4 in homers all homered today:
Yelich (38 & 39)
Bellinger (37)
Trout (37)
Alonso (35)It’s just the 4th time that’s happened with all 4 hitting 35+:
9/8/60 (Banks, Maris, Aaron, Lemon)
8/23/98 (McGwire, Sosa, Griffey, G. Vaughn)
8/17/02 (Sosa, A-Rod, Thome, S. Green)— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) August 6, 2019
How high can they go?
It’s not quite time to start reprinting the home run leaderboards on every Sports front page in America, like they did in 1998. But we’re getting close. The Brewers have played 114 games, the Dodgers 115 and the Angels 114.
Yelich and Bellinger were on a 60-home run pace for the first two months of the season but have slowed down slightly, while Trout has picked it up.
Here’s their current paces with less than 50 games to go:
Christian Yelich 55.4 home runs
Mike Trout 52.6 home runs
Cody Bellinger 52.1 home runs
Pete Alonso 50.2 home runs
Here’s to a hot streak for all four of them to make September might interesting.
CHRISTIAN YELICH INTO THE RIVER FOR HIS 2ND OF THE NIGHT
39th bomb of the year
4th multi-HR game of the year pic.twitter.com/g2Hxjrsijm— Starting 9 (@Starting9) August 6, 2019
