{"id":28562,"date":"2025-08-26T22:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/road-to-a-home-run-of-40-hr-which-dominicans-achieved-it\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T22:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T02:00:46","slug":"road-to-a-home-run-of-40-hr-which-dominicans-achieved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/road-to-a-home-run-of-40-hr-which-dominicans-achieved-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Road to a home run of 40 HR: Which Dominicans achieved it?"},"content":{"rendered":"The young Dominican talent, Junior Caminero, is about to make history in the Major Leagues.\n\nWith 39 home runs in the current season, the Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; third baseman is one home run away from joining a select group of Dominicans who have surpassed the 40 home run mark in a season.\n\nIf he achieves it, Caminero would become the nineteenth Dominican to reach this outstanding figure, an achievement that has been accomplished 50 times by players from the Dominican Republic since 1987.\n\nThe first to achieve this feat was George Bell, who in 1987 connected 47 home runs playing for the Toronto Blue Jays. That same year, Bell was awarded the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award of the American League, marking a milestone as the first Dominican to receive this recognition.\n\nAmong the most prominent names that have surpassed 40 home runs in multiple seasons are Alex Rodr\u00edguez, who leads with eight seasons; Sammy Sosa and Albert Pujols, both with seven; and Manny Ram\u00edrez, with five.\n\n<ul><li>Nelson Cruz (4)<\/li><li>David Ortiz (3)<\/li><li>Jos\u00e9 Bautista (3)<\/li><li>Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n (2)<\/li><li>Vladimir Guerrero (2)<\/li><\/ul>\n\nOther players who have reached the 40+ home run mark in a season, although only once, are George Bell, Adri\u00e1n Beltr\u00e9, Alfonso Soriano, Carlos Pe\u00f1a, Tony Batista, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Marcell Ozuna, and Juan Soto.\n\n<h2>Dominicans with 40+ HR seasons<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Alex Rodr\u00edguez: 8<\/li><li>Sammy Sosa: 7<\/li><li>Albert Pujols: 7<\/li><li>Manny Ram\u00edrez: 5<\/li><li>Nelson Cruz: 4<\/li><li>David Ortiz: 3<\/li><li>Jos\u00e9 Bautista: 3<\/li><li>Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n: 2<\/li><li>Vladimir Guerrero: 2<\/li><li>Others (1 time each): George Bell, Adri\u00e1n Beltr\u00e9, Alfonso Soriano, Carlos Pe\u00f1a, Tony Batista, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Fernando Tatis Jr., Marcell Ozuna and Juan Soto.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h2>Some outstanding records<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sammy Sosa: 66 HR (1998), 64 HR (2001), and 63 HR (1999).<\/li><li>Alex Rodr\u00edguez: 57 HR (2002) and 54 HR (2007).<\/li><li>David Ortiz: 54 HR (2006).<\/li><li>Jos\u00e9 Bautista: 54 HR (2010).<\/li><li>Vladimir Guerrero Jr.: 48 HR (2021).<\/li><li>Juan Soto: 41 HR (2024).<\/li><li>Marcell Ozuna: 40 HR (2023).<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young Dominican talent, Junior Caminero, is about to make history in the Major Leagues. With 39 home runs in the current season, the Tampa Bay Rays&#8217; third baseman is one home run away from joining a select group of Dominicans who have surpassed the 40 home run mark in a season. If he achieves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[1384,1117,1116,7890],"class_list":{"0":"post-28562","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-dominicans","9":"tag-home-runs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-road-worker"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}