SAN DIEGO – Andrew McCutchen tied Roberto Clemente for third place on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ all-time home run list with 240, thanks to a two-run homer hit off San Diego’s Randy Vasquez in the third inning on Sunday.
This was the second home run in two games and the fifth of the season for McCutchen, 38, who is in his 17th season in the Major Leagues and his 12th with Pittsburgh, in two stints. The hit gave the Pirates a 2-1 lead.
Clemente hit 240 home runs between 1955 and 1972. He was 38 years old when he died on December 31, 1972, in the crash of a plane he chartered to deliver emergency supplies to the survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua. He was posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973.
Willie Stargell leads the Pirates’ list with 475 home runs, followed by Ralph Kiner with 301.
McCutchen has 324 home runs in his career, in which he has also played for Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and the New York Yankees.
