Related Stories
The next home run Sosa hits will be a milestone.

Big challenges for Sammy Sosa in 2000.

Latinos sweep the new Hank Aaron award in 1999.

Sammy Sosa: The biography with updated stats.

 

Sosa reaches milestone by slamming two homers. 

May 25, 2000 -- Slamming Sammy Sosa ended his home-run drought in the seventh inning by clearing the fences for the first time since May 10th to get his 350th career blast making him the 57th player in major-league history to reach that number. He also has 40 multi-homer games.

Sosa then put the Cubs ahead with another home run with a man on base, his 15th, off Mike DeJean in the eighth. That blast gave the Chicago Cubs a come from behind 6-5 victory over the Colorado Rockies. 

"I was hitting the ball hard in Chicago, and the wind was killing me and there's nothing much you can do about it," Sosa said. "But the way that I've been doing this year, I've been taking my walk, taking my base hit. I just want to pick it up again and hopefully I can continue it all year long."

"It has been a long time in between home runs," Cubs manager Don Baylor said. "When you aren't trying to hit home runs, you are taking good swings. Sammy had better swings today."


LINE
Back to Latino Legends in Sports

Web site design, development and maintenance by
  Latino Legends in Sports.™
© Copyright 1999-2000.  All Rights Reserved.