40 plate appearances or 18 BB + H required for career leaders of rate statistics. The damage included two homers in Game 2, the latter the only walk-off grand slam ever hit in the postseason.
Cruz now has 17 career postseason big flies, putting him in the top 10 on the all-time list. Upton (2008 Rays): 7The 24-year-old hit all of nine home runs in 145 regular-season games for the 2008 Rays, who captured the AL East in what was the first winning season in franchise history. The barrage included three big flies in the Yankees’ clinching victory in Game 6 at Yankee Stadium, with Jackson driving in five of the team’s eight runs. Here is a look at the top postseason home run hitters of all time. All-time and Single-Season Postseason Batting Leaders. 6-T) Daniel Murphy (2015 Mets): 7Murphy did not have a reputation as a power hitter, to put it mildly, entering the 2015 postseason with 62 career homers in 903 games. How? Andrew Simon is a research analyst for MLB.com.
With his eighth homer of the postseason in Game 4 of the Fall Classic against the Rays, Seager tied Duke Snider for the second-most career postseason roundtrippers in Dodgers history, with 11. His .344/.420/.770 slash line included two multihomer efforts, a clutch go-ahead shot in the eighth inning of ALCS Game 3 against the Twins, and eight World Series RBIs that helped earn him MVP honors. Then he topped himself the next year, helping Texas win a second straight American League pennant. The 25-year-old outfielder set an MLB rookie record when he smashed his seventh home run of the postseason in Game 7 of the ALCS against the Astros, and then set a new MLB record for homers in one postseason with his ninth in World Series Game 4 against the Dodgers. His career OPS in the playoffs … T-9) Carlos Correa: 17 HRCorrea only turned 26 shortly before the start of the 2020 postseason, yet he's already rocketing up this list. Murphy hit a key homer off Clayton Kershaw in Game 1 of the NLDS, then set a record by going deep in six straight contests, between Game 4 of that series and the Mets’ Game 4 clincher in the NLCS against the Cubs. A sixth-inning single also gave him 26 hits during the playoffs, tying the postseason mark set by Pablo Sandoval in 2014. Nine of Mantle’s homers came off Dodgers pitchers, his most of any opponent. Despite walking 27 times in 74 plate appearances -- 13 of those free passes intentional -- Bonds took advantage of his opportunities to do damage.
© 2020 ABG-SI LLC. He is ahead of Altuve as the Astros’ all-time leader in postseason home runs, and is tied with Pujols among active players. 2) Bernie Williams: 22 HRWilliams wasn’t known as a huge power hitter, topping out at 30 homers in a season. While Altuve has had his share of first-inning home runs, his most memorable blast came in Game 6 of the '19 ALCS, when he sent Houston to the World Series with a pennant-clinching walk-off shot against Aroldis Chapman. In the latter Fall Classic, against the Dodgers, Jackson set a record for a single World Series with five homers (since tied by Chase Utley in 2009 and George Springer in ‘17). T-9) Nelson Cruz: 17 HRCruz’s 17 career postseason homers include six in his first postseason in 2010, and eight in 2011, when he set a record for a single series with six in the ALCS. Andrew Simon is a research analyst for MLB.com.
He was MVP of the 2004 NLCS (four homers) and is one of only 10 players to go deep three times in a postseason game -- one of four to do it in the World Series (2011, Game 3).