#23 2000 season – Edison Field - Troy Glaus’s 47 Home Runs

In 2000, Troy Glaus set the Angels’ single-season records with a league leading 47 HR and a .604 SLG%. At the time, the 47 homers set a record (since broken) for the most HR by an AL 3B. He also scored 120 runs, smashed 102 RBI, and batted .284 to make the All-Star team and win the Silver Slugger Award.

Not only did Glaus break the team record, Troy was the leader of a quartet of Angels sluggers to become the first AL foursome to hit 30+ HR in the same season - together with Mo Vaughn (36), Garret Anderson (35) and Tim Salmon (34). In all, the 2000 Angels shattered the team record with 236 home runs.

En route to those prolific feats, Glaus, Vaughn, and Salmon combined their power to accomplish another ML first. On Apr. 21, in a game against the Devil Rays, Vaughn and Salmon led of the bottom of the 4^th with back-to-back homers that tied the game at two runs a piece. Two batters later, Glaus blasted a two-run shot to give the Halos the lead. Then in the 9^th, with the game tied 6-6, the threesome did it again – each one hammering their own nail in the Devil Rays’ coffin. Not only did the Angels win the game 9-6, the three Angels became the first trio of teammates in history to homer in the same inning twice in the same game.