The Mariners break the record for most home run by a major league team when Jay Buhner goes deep for the club’s 258th round-tripper of the season in the first inning of the 4-3 victory over Anaheim at the Kingdome. The eventual AL Division Champs, who will have six players hit at least 20 homers, break the record established last year by the Orioles, and will extend the mark to 264 round-trippers by season’s end.

On September 23, 1997 — The Mariners break the record for most home run by a major league team when Jay Buhner goes deep for the club’s 258th round-tripper of the season in the first inning of the 4-3 victory over Anaheim at the Kingdome. Buhner then K’s for the 173rd time, a new Mariners record. The eventual AL Division Champs, who will have six players hit at least 20 homers, break the record established last year by the Orioles, and will extend the mark to 264 round-trippers by season’s end.

Not to be out done Angels Lefty OF Jim Edmonds hits a pair of home runs off Randy Johnson, Johnson won’t give up another home run to a lefty until John Olerud takes him deep in Game 1 of the 1999 NLDS.

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