Friday, April 27, 2007

Home run facts about Kent Hrbek


Kent Hrbek hit 293 career homeruns, all with the Minnesota Twins. 156 of them were hit in the Dome and 235 of them were hit off of righties.

He hit 4 walk off homeruns. And, if you can believe it, 2 inside the park homeruns. The first inside the park homerun was hit Tuesday September 11, 1984 off of Charlie Liebrandt. It came in the 7th inning and scored Mickey Hatcher ahead of him.

Hit hit the most homeruns, 35, against Baltimore. And the most he hit against 1 single pitcher was 7 off of future Twin, Jack Morris.

His very first homerun came off of George Frazier on August 24th, 1981. It gave the Twins a 3-2 lead in the 12th inning beating the Yankees.

His last homerun came about 13 years later on August 6, 1994. It was off of Melido Perez in the Dome.

3 of his homeruns were pinch hit homeruns.

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