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of Los Angeles Angels They’re making history — not all of it good — and it continued again Thursday afternoon. The Halos slugged seven home runs in the loss Oakland Athletics, tying the major league record for homers in a loss. It is the sixth team to go deep seven times.
Shohei Otani (who else?) led the way with two home runs. Joe Adele, Mickey Moniak, Kurt Suzuki, Jared Walsh and Taylor Ward all went deep as well. All seven home runs were solo homers.
The Angels are the first team in history to score at least seven runs in a game and score each run with a solo homer. Only twice has a team hit the only homers in a game and scored as many as six runs. A in 1991 and Toronto Blue Jays He did in 2010.
Here are five other teams with seven home wins.
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July 28, 2021 |
IT 17, mine 14 |
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August 12, 2020 |
Blue Jay |
MIA 14, TOR 10 in 10 innings |
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June 25, 2017 |
White Sox |
Blue Jay |
TOR 10, CWS 8 |
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August 8, 2004 |
BOS 11, DET 9 |
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May 28, 1995 |
Tigers |
White Sox |
CWS 14, IT 12 |
This Angels season now includes a no-hitter (Reid Detmers on May 10), a cycle (Walsh on June 11), an immaculate inning (Detmers on July 31), a franchise-record 14-game losing streak, four managers (Joe Madden, interim Phil Nevin, and fill-ins Ray Montgomery and Bill Hasselman while serving other suspensions) and is now the most home run loss in MLB history. This tweet remains the truest of all:
Thursday’s loss dropped the Angels to 44-61. They are 23-50 after a 21-11 season. The Angels haven’t advanced to the postseason since 2014 and haven’t won a postseason game since 2009.
