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Mark McGwire on Tuesday night hit his 63rd four-bagger to regain sole possession of the single-season home run record. The St. Louis Cardinal broke out of a tie with Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa when he hit a 385-foot drive to left center off the Pittsburgh Pirates' Jason Christiansen. (The Pirates won the first game of the doubleheader, 8-6.) McGwire had been in a 3-for-18 slump with three singles since hitting his 62nd home run on Sept. 8 to break Roger Maris's 37-year-old record...
Hold it! Hold it! McGwire and Sosa both went yard! I need a pretentious sports essayist stat...
...what about the summer of '98? Well, if the Clinton-Yeltsin summit and the fear of economic collapse lead both McGwire and Sosa to keep hitting home runs in search of enhanced income possibilities, we may really have a brand-new Inter-Related Harmonic Convergence to remember...
...Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs hit his 61st and 62nd home runs of the season at home on Sunday to pass Roger Maris and pull into a tie with Mark McGwire for the most homers in a single baseball season. Sosa hit No. 62 in the ninth inning off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Eric Plunk. (The Cubs won the game, 11-10, in 10 innings.) Both Sosa and McGwire have 12 games remaining this season...
Crying as he sat in the dugout after his triumphant tour around the bases, Sosa came out for three emotional curtain calls as fans littered the field while standing and chanting "Sam-mee! Sam-mee!" The delay lasted six minutes. Said the slugger: "I have to say what I did is for the people of Chicago, for America, for my mother, for my wife, my kids and the people I have around me. My team. It was an emotional moment...