MLB reaches 250,000 home runs hit, Tiger's Gary Sheffield makes the record

by Tina Kells | September 9, 2008 at 01:21 pm

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Baseball's Gary Sheffield made league history in Monday's game against the Oakland A's by hitting home run number 250,000. Sheffield is the designated hitter for the Detroit Tigers and is expected to reach his own career record of 500 home runs sometime this season.

Gary Sheffield still needs four home runs to reach 500. In the meantime, he provided a milestone for Major League Baseball. His second home run of the night was the 250,000th in major league history and the Tigers beat the Athletics 14-8. Sheffield was mostly thinking about hitting No. 500. "It really probably won't hit me until I get one or two away. Really, to me, four isn't close,'' he said. "You have to be at one or two. I can hit two in a game, I've never hit three.''

Sheffield has vowed to hit one home run in each of the Tiger's final six series games. After only the second inning of Monday's record breaking game he was already ahead of that goal.

Only five other major league players have hit more than 500 home runs; Ken Griffey Jr, Alex Rodriguez, Jim Thorne, Manny Ramirez and Frank Thomas. Sheffield is currently ranked number 25 on the all-time list.

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