Royals broke a franchise mark for homers and set an MLB record on Sunday
The Royals entered Sunday ranked dead last in home runs in the major leagues, five behind the Toronto Blue Jays, who were in 29th place.
But after a wild and wacky afternoon at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Royals moved past Toronto. The Royals set a team record with seven home runs, and the first six were all solo shots.
Maikel Garcia hit two homers, Jonathan India and Luke Maile had their first round-trippers with the Royals, Bobby Witt Jr. hit one and so did Vinnie Pasquantino. The Orioles hit four homers of their own, and each of those were solo shots.
In the ninth inning, Michael Massey hit a two-run blast, his first of the season, and that homer set the team record.
Here is Massey’s home run:
It’s only the third time in major-league history 10 solo home runs were hit in a single game, as MLB stats guru Sarah Langs noted.
Here are the others.
FanDuel Sports Kansas City broadcaster Ryan Lefebvre also said it was the first time in MLB history that the first 10 home runs hit in a game were solo shots.
Baseball Reference’s Jessica Brand confirmed that there had never been a game in which teams hit 10 consecutive solo home runs.
The White Sox-Tigers game from 1995 featured 12 home runs. Detroit’s Cecil Fielder hit a three-run shot in the first inning and two-run homer in the second inning.
For the Royals, their seven home runs broke the franchise record for the most in a game. They had hit six in a game three times.
- July 27, 2020 at Detroit
- May 21, 2003 at Seattle
- July 14, 1991 at Detroit
The home-run outburst seemingly came from nowhere. The Athletic’s Jayson Stark noted the Royals had not hit seven home runs in a week’s worth of games this season.
Then they hit seven on Sunday.
Here are the home runs hit by the Royals on Sunday.
The Royals had hit 15 home runs through their first 33 games. But they hit three on Saturday and seven on Sunday
This story was originally published May 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM with the headline "Royals broke a franchise mark for homers and set an MLB record on Sunday."
