Last Night in Baseball: Eugenio Suarez Goes Yard, is 1 Homer From MLB History

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Suárez is one homer shy of MLB history

This is Last Night in Baseball, yes, but given we are heading into the last weekend of the season, it’s also “Stuff to Watch Out For These Next Few nights… in Baseball.” We’re workshopping the name, alright?

Anyway! Eugenio Suárez hit his 49th home run of the season on Thursday night. It’s easy to forget just how many dingers he’s swatted this season given that he’s teammates with Cal Raleigh, MLB’s league leader in the long ball thanks to mashing 60 of the things, but Suárez’s season is meaningful, too.

There have been just 34 players to ever hit 50 homers in a season, with 11 of those hitting 50 at least twice, which accounts for the bulk of those campaigns. Suárez would make it 35 should he hit one more homer in his three remaining games — he previously missed by one dinger back in 2017 with the Reds. But there’s more to consider than that! Should he reach 50, he and Raleigh will become just the second-ever teammates to hit 50 home runs in the same season, joining Mickey Mantle (54) and Roger Maris (61) on the 1961 Yankees. Sure, Suárez began the year with the Diamondbacks, but he has 13 homers in 50 games with the Mariners, so it’s not as if he did all the work in Arizona before he arrived.