I was playing around with  the new HR page and I thought that it might be fun to look at  some of the most prolific  home run teammates and see how many times  each pair homered in the same inning. Today we look at the guys who set the standard.

Ruth and Gehrig

Lou Gehrig joined the Yankees in 1923 and began to play regularly in 1925. Ruth was then in his 6th season for the Yankees and for the next 10 years (1925-1934) the tandem dominated the league, combining for  858  homeruns. Ruth hit 511 during that time and Gehrig 347 .

In the first game of the double header on September 10, 1925 Ruth and Gehrig hit back to back home runs for the first time. It would be the first of 14 15 19 times that the duo would homer in the same inning, almost all of them back to back. (Gehrig batted fifth on July 20, 1930 and the information is incomplete for some of the other games.) In 1927 alone the pair hit home runs in the same inning in 5 different games including on separate occasions vs. Rube Walberg. Here are the Ruth home runs that were hit in the same inning as a Gehrig homer.

 
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This is for June 1:

Rk                    Born Yrs From   To ASG    G   AB   R    H  HR RBI  SB  BB   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS   W   L   ERA  WHIP   G  GS SV     IP    H  HR   BB   SO
1     Wilkin Castillo 1984   2 2008 2009   0   19   33   6    9   0   1   0   1 .273 .294 .303  .597
2     Carlos Zambrano 1981   9 2001 2009   3  250  517  55  124  17  49   1   6 .240 .248 .389  .636  99  63  3.50 1.292 239 218  0 1431.0 1208 120  641 1218
3      Brad Wilkerson 1977   8 2001 2008   0  972 3187 500  788 122 399  53 492 .247 .350 .440  .790
4          Derek Lowe 1973  13 1997 2009   2  168  292  18   38   0  15   1  18 .130 .179 .147  .327 132 110  3.74 1.266 544 266 85 2010.0 1977 158  568 1316
5         James Hurst 1967   1 1994 1994   0    0    0            0                                    0   0 10.12 2.344   8   0  0   10.2   17   1    8    5
6         Jessie Reid 1962   2 1987 1988   0    8   10   1    1   1   1   0   1 .100 .182 .400  .582
7        Sandy Wihtol 1955   3 1979 1982   0    0    0            0                                    1   0  3.75 1.353  28   0  1   57.2   54   3   24   34
8        Rick Baldwin 1953   3 1975 1977   0  105   22   2    6   0   0   0   0 .273 .273 .273  .545   4   7  3.60 1.358 105   0  7  182.2  173  10   75   86
9        Ken McMullen 1942  16 1962 1977   0 1583 5131 568 1273 156 606  20 510 .248 .316 .383  .699
10      Randy Hundley 1942  14 1964 1977   1 1061 3442 311  813  82 381  12 271 .236 .292 .350  .642
11        Dean Chance 1941  11 1961 1971   2  406  662  17   44   0  16   0  30 .066 .113 .069  .183 128 115  2.92 1.212 406 294 23 2147.1 1864 122  739 1534
12       Jim McKnight 1936   2 1960 1962   0   63   91   6   21   0   6   0   2 .231 .247 .253  .500
13       Jack Kralick 1935   9 1959 1967   1  236  382  25   62   4  21   0  16 .162 .199 .207  .406  67  65  3.56 1.278 235 169  1 1218.0 1238 124  318  668
14        Hal Kolstad 1935   2 1962 1963   0   34   19   0    1   0   1   0   0 .053 .053 .053  .105   0   4  6.59 1.687  34   2  2   72.1   81  15   41   42
15    Chuck Templeton 1932   2 1955 1956   0   10    3   0    0   0   0   0   0 .000 .000 .000  .000   0   2  7.71 1.905  10   2  0   21.0   25   4   15   11
16          Hal Smith 1931   7 1956 1965   3  570 1697 126  437  23 172   6 102 .258 .300 .345  .644
17          Ray Moore 1926  11 1952 1963   0  365  299  19   56   6  18   0   7 .187 .210 .274  .485  63  59  4.06 1.394 365 105 46 1072.2  935 101  560  612
18        Bud Metheny 1915   4 1943 1946   0  376 1390 187  344  31 156  12 149 .247 .323 .359  .682
19           Lou Tost 1911   3 1942 1947   0   39   52   3    9   0   1   0   2 .173 .204 .212  .415  10  11  3.65 1.384  39  23  0  155.1  159  14   56   46
20        Jo-Jo White 1909   9 1932 1944   0  878 2652 456  678   8 229  92 386 .256 .353 .328  .681
21         Lou Legett 1901   4 1929 1935   0   68  124  13   25   0   8   2   5 .202 .233 .226  .458
22        Fred Stiely 1901   3 1929 1931   0   10   10   1    5   0   2   0   1 .500 .545 .800 1.345   1   1  5.97 1.702   9   3  0   34.2   45   4   14    9
23     Dutch Schesler 1900   1 1931 1931   0   17    9   0    1   0   0   0   0 .111 .111 .222  .333   0   0  7.28 2.165  17   0  0   38.1   65   4   18   14
24         Al Niehaus 1899   1 1925 1925   0   68  211  23   58   0  21   1  14 .275 .326 .379  .705
25      Duke Sedgwick 1898   2 1921 1923   0   21   29   1    5   0   2   0   0 .172 .172 .172  .345   1   4  5.46 1.672  21   7  0   87.1  108   4   38   25
26      Johnny Mostil 1896  10 1918 1929   0  972 3507 618 1054  23 376 176 415 .301 .386 .427  .812
27       Eddie Palmer 1893   1 1917 1917   0   16   52   7   11   0   5   1   7 .212 .305 .231  .536
28         Guy Morton 1893  11 1914 1924   0  317  548  24   86   0  33   0  10 .157 .172 .188  .360  98  88  3.13 1.290 317 185  6 1629.2 1520  27  583  830
29           Ty Tyson 1892   3 1926 1928   0  199  704  89  197   5  73  14  35 .280 .320 .361  .681
30      Hank Severeid 1891  15 1911 1926   0 1390 4312 408 1245  17 539  35 331 .289 .342 .367  .709
31     Homer Thompson 1891   1 1912 1912   0    1    0   0    0   0   0   0   0
32           Tom Long 1890   5 1911 1917   0  418 1489 148  401   6 140  65  79 .269 .309 .379  .688
33        Otto Miller 1889  13 1910 1922   0  927 2836 229  695   5 231  40 104 .245 .275 .308  .583
34       Dixie Walker 1887   4 1909 1912   0   76  164  14   33   0   5   1  13 .201 .268 .220  .488  25  31  3.52 1.304  74  62  0  481.0  485   6  142  203
35      Harry Gardner 1887   2 1911 1912   0   14   14   1    3   0   0   0   0 .214 .214 .286  .500   1   1  4.46 1.488  14   3  2   42.1   42   2   21   24
36         Jim Duggan 1885   1 1911 1911   0    1    4   1    0   0   1   0   1 .000 .200 .000  .200
37        Herm Malloy 1885   2 1907 1908   0    4   13   0    4   0   1   0   0 .308 .308 .385  .692   0   3  4.32 1.680   4   3  0   25.0   33   2    9   14
38    Harry McChesney 1880   1 1904 1904   0   22   88   9   23   0  11   2   4 .261 .293 .375  .668
39        John Castle 1879   1 1910 1910   0    3    4   1    1   0   0   1   0 .250 .250 .250  .500
40         Joe Kostal 1876   1 1896 1896   0    2    0   0    0   0   0   0   0                        0   0  0.00 2.000   2   0  0    2.0    4   0    0    0
41       Floyd Ritter 1870   1 1890 1890   0    1    3   0    0   0   0   0   0 .000 .000 .000  .000
42         Les German 1869   6 1890 1897   0  147  408  60  106   3  51  11  33 .260 .323 .316  .639  34  63  5.49 1.732 129  92  2  849.2 1096  30  376  147
43   Ted Breitenstein 1869  11 1891 1901   0  447 1347 174  291   4 126  30 150 .216 .297 .267  .565 160 170  4.04 1.449 379 341  3 2964.1 3091  79 1203  889
44      George Decker 1869   8 1892 1899   0  701 2727 420  753  25 415 112 173 .276 .324 .376  .700
45         Bill Eagan 1869   3 1891 1898   0  108  382  66   90   4  50  26  57 .236 .348 .338  .686
46         John Ewing 1863   6 1883 1891   0  133  454  47   87   2  36  18  18 .192 .226 .231  .457  53  63  3.68 1.419 129 121  2 1058.2 1112  17  390  525
47       Andy Leonard 1846   9 1871 1880   0  501 2395 481  716   4 346  52  31 .299 .308 .363  .671