When Sammy Sosa was in a countdown to 500 career homers, the folks who run the Wrigley Field scoreboard put that count on the board, on the bottom of what usually would be the right field side.
Here, you see Sammy has 493 home runs and the Cubs are hosting the Diamondbacks.
This one’s easy. Sammy was in this countdown in 2002. The Cubs didn’t have a very good year in 2002, losing 95 games, while the D-Backs won the NL West with a 98-64 record.
Sammy hit his 493rd home run August 17, 2002 in a 6-2 loss to Arizona.