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In baseball parlance, an inside-the-park home run is a play where a batter hits a home run without hitting the ball out of the field of play.
To score an inside-the-park home run, the player must touch all four bases (in the order of first, second and third, ending at home plate) before a fielder on the opposing team tags him out. In Major League Baseball, if the defensive team commits an error during the play, it is not scored as a home run, but rather advancing on an error.[1] Statistically, an inside-the-park home run counts as a regular home run in the player's season and career totals.
In the early days of Major League Baseball, with outfields more spacious and less uniform from ballpark to ballpark, inside-the-park home runs were common. However, in the modern era, with outfields less spacious, the feat has become increasingly rare, happening only a handful of times each season. Today an inside-the-park home run is typically accomplished by a fast baserunner hitting the ball in such a way that the ball bounces far away from the opposing team's fielders.
Of the 154,483 home runs hit between 1951 and 2000, 975 (about 1 in every 158) were inside-the-park. The percentage has dwindled since the increase in emphasis on power hitting which began in the 1920s.
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An inside-the-park grand slam is the same event but, like all grand slams, features the bases loaded for an inside-the-park home run. There have been 226 inside-the-park grand slams in Major League Baseball history, 28 in the past 50 years, most recently by Aaron Altherr of the Philadelphia Phillies against the Washington Nationals on September 25, 2015.[20] Honus Wagner has the most in MLB history with five.
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