After being dragged into the story about Dallas Braden’s perfect game yesterday afternoon, Alex Rodriguez also homered against the Red Sox last night to tie Frank Robinson for seventh place on the all-time list with 586.
It was Rodriguez’s first homer in 61 at-bats and just his third of the season, but his next long ball will break the tie with Robinson and he also figures to pass Sammy Sosa by the end of the year: Here’s the current top 10:
Barry Bonds 762 Hank Aaron 755 Babe Ruth 714 Willie Mays 660 Ken Griffey Jr. 630 Sammy Sosa 609 Alex Rodriguez 586 Frank Robinson 586 Mark McGwire 583 Harmon Killebrew 573
Ken Griffey Jr. looks just about done, so he’s unlikely to pass Willie Mays for fourth place. Assuming that A-Rod ends up with at least 30 homers this year, he’d pass Sosa late in the season and then have Griffey and Mays in his sights for 2011. Also worth noting is that Jim Thome is four homers from tying Harmon Killebrew for 10th place and could also move past Mark McGwire and Robinson by season’s end.