When Jim Thome blasted his 609th home run into the left field bleachers Saturday at Citizens Bank Park, it was his 13th career walk-off home run. He had been tied with five pretty fair players — Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Babe Ruth, Stan Musial and Frank Robinson — for the major-league record at 12.
Thome's 13 walk-off homers (including links to videos for the last four) are listed below.
(We'll have another BoopStat on Jim Thome posted Monday morning.)
Notable:
♦ Four of his walk-off homers have come in June.
♦ Four of the 13 have come with his team losing.
♦ How cool is it that his career 500th homer was a walk-off? Fittingly enough, it was against the Angels, whom he has gotten for four of the 13.
♦ The Angels' Troy Percival has watched Thome blast a walk-off from the mound twice.
♦ Saturday's game-winner was his first off the (Tampa Bay) Rays, although he did touch the Brewers' Ray King in June of 2001.
♦ He had five walk-off homers (of 59 total) in a season-and-a-half span covering all of 2000 and the first half of 2001.