Born: October 28, 1954 in Asheville, NC
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1975.
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Debut: September 1, 1978
Final Game: October 3, 1987
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| 1979 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
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| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1979-04-10 | Reggie Jackson | NYY | @ | BAL | behind 3-4 | t 8 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 10 | 46% | 72% | Home Run; Johnstone Scores | |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1979-04-10 | Graig Nettles | NYY | @ | BAL | ahead 5-4 | t 8 | 2 | --- | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14% | 84% | Home Run | |
| 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1979-05-28 | George Brett | KCR | BAL | tied 4-4 | b 16 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 5 | 36% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run | |
| 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1979-06-07 | Al Cowens | KCR | @ | BAL | tied 0-0 | t 5 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 10 | 14% | 64% | Home Run | |
| 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1979-06-12 | Wayne Nordhagen | CHW | BAL | ahead 9-0 | b 4 | 1 | --- | 1 | 6 | 10 | 0% | 100% | Home Run | ||
| 6 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1979-06-12 | Claudell Washington | CHW | BAL | ahead 10-0 | b 5 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0% | 100% | Home Run; Kessinger Scores | ||
| 7 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 1979-07-21 | Willie Aikens | CAL | @ | BAL | behind 1-7 | t 8 | 1 | --- | 1 | 5 | 10 | 1% | 1% | Home Run | |
| 8 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1979-07-31 | Don Money | MIL | BAL | behind 3-5 | b 5 | 0 | --- | 1 | 2 | 10 | 13% | 42% | Home Run | ||
| 9 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1979-08-07 | Gorman Thomas | MIL | @ | BAL | behind 3-4 | t 5 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 8 | 25% | 62% | Home Run; Money Scores | |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | 2 | 1979-08-07 | Dick Davis | MIL | @ | BAL | tied 5-5 | t 8 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 7 | 30% | 86% | Home Run (LF-CF); Lezcano Scores | |
| 11 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 1979-08-17 | Darrell Porter | KCR | @ | BAL | ahead 4-1 | t 9 | 1 | 12- | 3 | 4 | 2 | 3% | 100% | Home Run; Wilson Scores/unER; Brett Scores | |
| 1980 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 12 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 1980-04-20 | Lamar Johnson | CHW | @ | BAL | ahead 3-1 | t 4 | 2 | -2- | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14% | 87% | Home Run; Molinaro Scores | |
| 13 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1980-05-07 | Butch Wynegar | MIN | @ | BAL | behind 4-6 | t 8 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 8 | 2 | 30% | 50% | Home Run; Powell Scores | |
| 14 | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1980-06-03 | Cecil Cooper | MIL | @ | BAL | ahead 2-0 | t 9 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4% | 97% | Home Run | |
| 15 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1980-06-08 | Bobby Clark | CAL | BAL | behind 5-13 | b 9 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 6 | 7 | 0% | 0% | Home Run; Thompson Scores; Cruz Scores | ||
| 16 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 1980-06-11 | Tony Armas | OAK | BAL | tied 2-2 | b 14 | 0 | 123 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 6% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run; Edwards Scores; Klutts Scores; Page Scores | |
| 17 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 1980-07-03 | Carl Yastrzemski | BOS | @ | BAL | ahead 4-2 | t 9 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4% | 97% | Home Run | |
| 18 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 1980-07-19 | Bump Wills | TEX | @ | BAL | ahead 7-6 | t 10 | 2 | 123 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 14% | 99% | Home Run; Sundberg Scores; Roberts Scores; Rivers Scores | |
| 19 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 1980-09-04 | Tony Armas | OAK | @ | BAL | ahead 6-1 | t 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1% | 98% | Home Run | |
| 20 | 20 | 9 | 1 | 1980-10-01 | Tony Perez | BOS | BAL | behind 5-12 | b 6 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3% | 5% | Home Run (LF-CF); Rice Scores | ||
| 1981 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 21 | 21 | 1 | 1 | 1981-05-23 | Steve Kemp | DET | BAL | behind 1-9 | b 8 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0% | 0% | Home Run | ||
| 22 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 1981-06-02 | Dave Revering | NYY | BAL | tied 3-3 | b 11 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 8 | 3 | 31% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run; Cerone Scores | |
| 23 | 23 | 3 | 1 | 1981-08-14 | Jim Morrison | CHW | @ | BAL | behind 0-1 | t 3 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 8 | 5 | 20% | 62% | Home Run; Bernazard Scores | |
| 24 | 24 | 4 | 1 | 1981-08-31 | Len Randle | SEA | @ | BAL | tied 3-3 | t 9 | 2 | --- | 1 | 2 | 5 | 42% | 82% | Home Run | |
| 25 | 25 | 5 | 1 | 1981-09-18 | Gorman Thomas | MIL | @ | BAL | ahead 4-1 | t 8 | 2 | --- | 1 | 5 | 9 | 4% | 97% | Home Run | |
| 26 | 26 | 6 | 1 | 1981-09-22 | John Wockenfuss | DET | @ | BAL | tied 3-3 | t 6 | 1 | --- | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18% | 65% | Home Run | |
| 27 | 27 | 7 | 1 | 1981-10-02 | Dave Winfield | NYY | @ | BAL | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 2 | --- | 1 | 3 | 7 | 11% | 57% | Home Run | |
| 28 | 28 | 8 | 2 | 1981-10-02 | Graig Nettles | NYY | @ | BAL | ahead 1-0 | t 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 5 | 18% | 76% | Home Run; Jackson Scores | |
| 1982 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 29 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 1982-04-05 | George Brett | KCR | @ | BAL | behind 4-7 | t 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8% | 18% | Home Run | |
| 30 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 1982-05-01 | Reggie Jackson | CAL | @ | BAL | behind 0-1 | t 6 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 9 | 30% | 64% | Home Run; Carew Scores | |
| 31 | 31 | 3 | 1 | 1982-06-02 | Dave Hostetler | TEX | @ | BAL | ahead 2-0 | t 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 3 | 8% | 82% | Home Run | |
| 32 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 1982-06-10 | Don Money | MIL | BAL | behind 0-1 | b 1 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 3 | 3 | 19% | 63% | Home Run (LF-CF); Molitor Scores | ||
| 33 | 33 | 5 | 1 | 1982-08-03 (2) | Dwight Evans | BOS | @ | BAL | tied 0-0 | t 1 | 1 | --- | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10% | 58% | Home Run | |
| 34 | 34 | 6 | 2 | 1982-08-03 (2) | Jim Rice | BOS | @ | BAL | behind 3-6 | t 5 | 2 | --- | 1 | 3 | 7 | 8% | 20% | Home Run | |
| 35 | 35 | 7 | 1 | 1982-08-27 (2) | Lamar Johnson | TEX | @ | BAL | tied 2-2 | t 3 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | 10 | 20% | 70% | Home Run; Parrish Scores | |
| 36 | 36 | 8 | 1 | 1982-09-06 | Roy Smalley | NYY | BAL | behind 0-8 | b 9 | 2 | -2- | 2 | 6 | 6 | 0% | 0% | Home Run; Gamble Scores | ||
| 37 | 37 | 9 | 1 | 1982-09-28 | Lance Parrish | DET | BAL | behind 5-6 | b 7 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 2 | 41% | 77% | Home Run; Herndon Scores | ||
| 1983 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 38 | 38 | 1 | 1 | 1983-04-30 | Todd Cruz | SEA | BAL | ahead 3-2 | b 6 | 2 | 1-3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 20% | 94% | Home Run; Putnam Scores; Sweet Scores | ||
| 39 | 39 | 2 | 1 | 1983-05-04 | Doug DeCinces | CAL | @ | BAL | ahead 7-5 | t 6 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12% | 92% | Home Run; Foli Scores | |
| 40 | 40 | 3 | 1 | 1983-06-29 | Butch Wynegar | NYY | BAL | ahead 5-0 | b 7 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1% | 100% | Home Run; Mattingly Scores | ||
| 41 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 1983-07-11 | Davey Lopes | OAK | @ | BAL | behind 5-7 | t 8 | 0 | --- | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12% | 25% | Home Run | |
| 42 | 42 | 5 | 1 | 1983-07-16 | Bobby Clark | CAL | @ | BAL | ahead 5-4 | t 5 | 1 | 1-3 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 18% | 89% | Home Run; Jackson Scores; Grich Scores | |
| 43 | 43 | 6 | 1 | 1983-07-25 | Bob Boone | CAL | BAL | ahead 4-2 | b 8 | 1 | --- | 1 | 9 | 2 | 4% | 97% | Home Run (LF-CF) | ||
| 44 | 44 | 7 | 1 | 1983-08-15 | Pete O'Brien | TEX | BAL | behind 1-6 | b 7 | 0 | 12- | 3 | 7 | 3 | 12% | 21% | Home Run; Rivers Scores; Sample Scores | ||
| 1984 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 45 | 45 | 1 | 1 | 1984-05-02 | Brook Jacoby | CLE | @ | BAL | behind 3-6 | t 8 | 1 | 12- | 3 | 6 | 5 | 34% | 45% | Home Run; Franco Scores/unER; Tabler Scores | |
| 46 | 46 | 2 | 1 | 1984-05-12 | Joe Morgan | OAK | @ | BAL | ahead 5-1 | t 6 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6% | 99% | Home Run; Davis Scores; Phillips Scores | |
| 47 | 47 | 3 | 1 | 1984-06-30 | Vance Law | CHW | BAL | tied 4-4 | b 11 | 1 | --- | 1 | 8 | 5 | 42% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run | |
| 48 | 48 | 4 | 1 | 1984-07-15 | Greg Luzinski | CHW | @ | BAL | behind 2-5 | t 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 10 | 8% | 18% | Home Run | |
| 49 | 49 | 5 | 1 | 1984-09-01 | Jim Presley | SEA | BAL | behind 7-9 | b 8 | 2 | --- | 1 | 9 | 5 | 10% | 19% | Home Run | ||
| 50 | 50 | 6 | 1 | 1984-09-07 | Jim Sundberg | MIL | @ | BAL | behind 6-8 | t 8 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 8 | 2 | 33% | 42% | Home Run; Loman Scores | |
| 51 | 51 | 7 | 1 | 1984-09-15 | Robin Yount | MIL | BAL | ahead 3-0 | b 6 | 2 | 123 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 7% | 99% | Home Run; Lozado Scores; Romero Scores; Loman Scores | ||
| 1985 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 52 | 52 | 1 | 1 | 1985-04-14 | Rance Mulliniks | TOR | @ | BAL | ahead 3-2 | t 7 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 2 | 5 | 16% | 90% | Home Run; Garcia Scores/unER | |
| 53 | 53 | 2 | 1 | 1985-04-19 | Jesse Barfield | TOR | BAL | behind 2-4 | b 6 | 2 | 1-3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 43% | 70% | Home Run; Bell Scores; Thornton Scores | ||
| 54 | 54 | 3 | 1 | 1985-04-22 | Pete O'Brien | TEX | BAL | ahead 5-1 | b 8 | 2 | --- | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1% | 99% | Home Run | ||
| 55 | 55 | 4 | 1 | 1985-05-10 | Tom Brunansky | MIN | @ | BAL | ahead 4-3 | t 7 | 1 | --- | 1 | 4 | 9 | 13% | 81% | Home Run | |
| 56 | 56 | 5 | 1 | 1985-05-26 | Brian Downing | CAL | BAL | ahead 6-4 | b 6 | 2 | 12- | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13% | 97% | Home Run; Wilfong Scores; Beniquez Scores | ||
| 57 | 57 | 6 | 1 | 1985-06-10 | Barbaro Garbey | DET | BAL | behind 6-7 | b 11 | 0 | --- | 1 | 9 | PH | 44% | 64% | Home Run | ||
| 58 | 58 | 7 | 1 | 1985-07-03 | Dave Bergman | DET | @ | BAL | tied 3-3 | t 10 | 0 | --- | 1 | 7 | 3 | 34% | 84% | Home Run | |
| 59 | 59 | 8 | 1 | 1985-07-09 | Tim Teufel | MIN | @ | BAL | behind 5-10 | t 8 | 0 | --- | 1 | 7 | 4 | 2% | 4% | Home Run | |
| 60 | 60 | 9 | 1 | 1985-07-20 | George Brett | KCR | @ | BAL | ahead 5-3 | t 5 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9% | 84% | Home Run | |
| 61 | 61 | 10 | 2 | 1985-07-20 | Willie Wilson | KCR | @ | BAL | ahead 6-3 | t 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 8 | 5% | 94% | Home Run | |
| 62 | 62 | 11 | 1 | 1985-08-02 | Brook Jacoby | CLE | BAL | tied 5-5 | b 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 6 | 5 | 17% | 74% | Home Run | ||
| 63 | 63 | 12 | 1 | 1985-08-31 | Gorman Thomas | SEA | @ | BAL | ahead 3-0 | t 5 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 4 | 10 | 8% | 94% | Home Run; Cowens Scores | |
| 64 | 64 | 13 | 1 | 1985-09-13 | Johnny Grubb | DET | BAL | behind 2-5 | b 8 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 6 | PH | 14% | 20% | Home Run; Lemon Scores | ||
| 65 | 65 | 14 | 1 | 1985-10-03 (1) | Tony Armas | BOS | @ | BAL | ahead 1-0 | t 1 | 2 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 10 | 17% | 75% | Home Run; Gedman Scores | |
| 66 | 66 | 15 | 1 | 1985-10-06 | Chet Lemon | DET | @ | BAL | ahead 6-3 | t 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 7 | 8 | 5% | 92% | Home Run | |
| 1986 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 67 | 67 | 1 | 1 | 1986-04-07 | Kirk Gibson | DET | BOS | behind 4-5 | b 7 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 3 | 9 | 40% | 77% | Home Run; Whitaker Scores | ||
| 68 | 68 | 2 | 1 | 1986-07-30 | Tim Hulett | CHW | BOS | ahead 3-2 | b 6 | 1 | 1-- | 2 | 7 | 5 | 16% | 90% | Home Run; Hassey Scores | ||
| 69 | 69 | 3 | 1 | 1986-08-19 | Gary Gaetti | MIN | BOS | ahead 3-0 | b 6 | 0 | 1-- | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5% | 97% | Home Run; Hrbek Scores | ||
| 70 | 70 | 4 | 1 | 1986-08-29 | Joe Carter | CLE | @ | BOS | ahead 5-2 | t 7 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 9 | 5% | 94% | Home Run (Fly Ball to Deep LF) | |
| 71 | 71 | 5 | 1 | 1986-09-13 | Dave Winfield | NYY | BOS | ahead 5-0 | b 5 | 0 | -23 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 1% | 99% | Home Run; Pasqua Scores; Easler Scores | ||
| 72 | 72 | 6 | 1 | 1986-09-14 | Rickey Henderson | NYY | BOS | ahead 5-3 | b 4 | 0 | --- | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7% | 86% | Home Run | ||
| 73 | 73 | 7 | 2 | 1986-09-14 | Dan Pasqua | NYY | BOS | ahead 6-3 | b 4 | 1 | --- | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6% | 91% | Home Run | ||
| 1987 HRs | #car | #yr | #gm | Date | Batter | @Bat | Score | Inn | Out | RoB | R | BOP | Pos | bWPA | bWE | Notes | Play Description | ||
| 74 | 74 | 1 | 1 | 1987-07-06 | Danny Tartabull | KCR | @ | CLE | behind 3-5 | t 8 | 0 | 1-3 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 38% | 74% | Home Run; Seitzer Scores; Brett Scores | |
| 75 | 75 | 2 | 1 | 1987-09-16 | Rey Quinones | SEA | CLE | tied 3-3 | b 9 | 1 | -2- | 2 | 8 | 6 | 29% | 100% | Walk-Off | Home Run; Nixon Scores | |
| 76 | 76 | 3 | 1 | 1987-09-22 | Carney Lansford | OAK | @ | CLE | ahead 4-1 | t 7 | 0 | 1-3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4% | 98% | Home Run; Davis Scores; McGwire Scores | |
| 77 | 77 | 4 | 1 | 1987-10-03 | Wally Joyner | CAL | CLE | ahead 8-2 | b 6 | 0 | --- | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1% | 99% | Home Run |
Much of the data on Baseball-Reference.com's Home Run Logs comes from the Tattersall/McConnell Home Run Log, a database of all homers hit in the major leagues since 1876. This project was begun in the 1940's by John C. Tattersall and was continued after Tattersall's death in 1981 by Bob McConnell, one of SABR's original 16 members. David Vincent, another SABR member, has since assumed the leadership of the project. Baseball-Reference.com has licensed this remarkable database from the Society for American Baseball Research. All credit for the data therein goes to the intrepid researchers who digitized this data from archival sources.
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