14 Facts About Home run

In baseball, a home run is scored when the ball is hit in such a way that the batter is able to circle the bases and reach home plate safely in one play without any errors being committed by the defensive team.

In modern times a home run is most often scored when the ball is hit over the outfield wall between the foul poles before it touches the ground, and without being caught or deflected back onto the field by a fielder.

Home run accomplished in any of the above manners is an automatic home run.

An inside-the-park home run occurs when a batter hits the ball into play and is able to circle the bases before the fielders can put him out.

Similarly, a home run with two runners on base is a three-run homer or three-run shot.

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Walk-off home run is a home run hit by the home team in the bottom of the ninth inning, any extra inning, or other scheduled final inning, which gives the home team the lead and thereby ends the game.

The term is attributed to Hall of Fame relief pitcher Dennis Eckersley, so named because after the Home run is scored, the losing team has to "walk off" the field.

Such a home run can be called a "sudden death" or "sudden victory" home run.

Walk-off home run over the fence is an exception to baseball's one-run rule.

Leadoff home run is a home run hit by the first batter of a team, the leadoff hitter of the first inning of the game.

The first home run ever hit in the National League was by Ross Barnes of the Chicago White Stockings, in 1876.

The home run was measured at a distance of 582 feet and was hit inside Denver's Mile High Stadium.

On May 6,1964, Chicago White Sox outfielder Dave Nicholson hit a home run officially measured at 573 feet that either bounced atop the left-field roof of Comiskey Park or entirely cleared it.

Major League Baseball's longest verifiable home run distance is about 575 feet, by Babe Ruth, to straightaway center field at Tiger Stadium, which landed nearly across the intersection of Trumbull and Cherry.