On Tuesday night at Rogers Centre, Royals left fielder Alex Gordon was among the least-likely candidates to hit the record-breaking 5,694th homer of this baseball season. Toronto’s Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak were on the field. So were the Royals’ Mike Moustakas and Salvador Perez.
But in a 5-2 loss to the Blue Jays, Gordon cranked a baseball out to right-center field at the perfect time, securing a place in baseball history as the player who broke the record for most homers in a season, surpassing the previous mark set in 2000.
Watch his record-breaking homer here:
Gordon finished the night with eight homers on the season and three in his last 10 games.