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9/6/2020 4:00:00 PM | Baseball, Paul Coro, Lopes Insider Blog
Baseball great put GCU among 11 colleges with MLB franchise HR leader
For two decades, Tim Salmon had Grand Canyon baseball swimming in rare waters.
Until Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout broke Salmon's franchise home run record Saturday night, GCU was one of 11 colleges that could lay claim to producing a MLB franchise home run record-holder. The Lopes and Salmon were right there with USC and Mark McGwire, Auburn and Frank Thomas, Tennessee and Todd Helton, South Alabama and Luis Gonzalez, among others.
"It's time to pass the torch on to somebody in the family – another fish," Salmon, part of the Angels' broadcast crew, said on air.
It is a testament to Salmon's career to even have set a franchise home run record in 2000, when a home run off Roger Clemens put "King Fish" in the company of Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr., Willie Mays, Cal Ripken Jr., Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and 11 other Hall of Fame members.
Salmon hit 299 career home runs, the most that any MLB player has smashed without being selected to an All-Star Game. With a .282 career average and 1,016 RBI (also second most in Angels history), Salmon won a 1995 Silver Slugger Award and a 2002 World Series over 14 seasons (1992-2006) with the Angels.
Trout, 29, became only the 16th player to hit his 300th career home run before turning 30 years old. The three-time American League MVP set the record in his 1,235th game, 437 fewer games than Salmon played.
"That is unfathomable," Salmon said on a video he narrated for Fox Sports West. "Rocket past my record. To see him connect bat to ball in a seemingly perfect way has been a privilege."
As his career highlights played, Salmon opened the tribute video, saying, "A home run has been called the hardest thing to do in sports. A ball hurled at you from 60 feet, 6 inches away. Sometimes, it screams toward you at 100 miles per hour. Other times, you find yourself looking for it, as if it's meandering toward the plate, darting back and forth before finally reaching its intended destination. But from my perspective, hopefully that ball's journey has just been begun. Because no matter it's path, there is nothing better than sending that ball back even faster in the other direction."
Salmon is the only GCU baseball player to have his number (10) retired and his name also adorns the Tim Salmon Clubhouse outside Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. He hit .383 for the Lopes from 1987 to 1989 and set a program record with 51 career home runs. That home run record still stands.
Until Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout broke Salmon's franchise home run record Saturday night, GCU was one of 11 colleges that could lay claim to producing a MLB franchise home run record-holder. The Lopes and Salmon were right there with USC and Mark McGwire, Auburn and Frank Thomas, Tennessee and Todd Helton, South Alabama and Luis Gonzalez, among others.
"It's time to pass the torch on to somebody in the family – another fish," Salmon, part of the Angels' broadcast crew, said on air.
It is a testament to Salmon's career to even have set a franchise home run record in 2000, when a home run off Roger Clemens put "King Fish" in the company of Hank Aaron, Ken Griffey Jr., Willie Mays, Cal Ripken Jr., Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and 11 other Hall of Fame members.
Salmon hit 299 career home runs, the most that any MLB player has smashed without being selected to an All-Star Game. With a .282 career average and 1,016 RBI (also second most in Angels history), Salmon won a 1995 Silver Slugger Award and a 2002 World Series over 14 seasons (1992-2006) with the Angels.
Trout, 29, became only the 16th player to hit his 300th career home run before turning 30 years old. The three-time American League MVP set the record in his 1,235th game, 437 fewer games than Salmon played.
"That is unfathomable," Salmon said on a video he narrated for Fox Sports West. "Rocket past my record. To see him connect bat to ball in a seemingly perfect way has been a privilege."
As his career highlights played, Salmon opened the tribute video, saying, "A home run has been called the hardest thing to do in sports. A ball hurled at you from 60 feet, 6 inches away. Sometimes, it screams toward you at 100 miles per hour. Other times, you find yourself looking for it, as if it's meandering toward the plate, darting back and forth before finally reaching its intended destination. But from my perspective, hopefully that ball's journey has just been begun. Because no matter it's path, there is nothing better than sending that ball back even faster in the other direction."
Salmon is the only GCU baseball player to have his number (10) retired and his name also adorns the Tim Salmon Clubhouse outside Brazell Field at GCU Ballpark. He hit .383 for the Lopes from 1987 to 1989 and set a program record with 51 career home runs. That home run record still stands.
"The Home Run" narrated by @TimSalmon15 @Angels | @MikeTrout pic.twitter.com/yPMbwACzyC
— FOX Sports West (@FoxSportsWest) September 6, 2020
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