Babe Ruth kept on coming. Ruth tied his own record of 29 on July 15 and broke it with home runs in both games of a doubleheader four days later. By the end of July, he had 37, but his pace slackened somewhat after that. Nevertheless, on September 4, he both tied and broke the organized baseball record for home runs in a season, snapping Perry Werden's 1895 mark of 44 in the minor Western League. The Yankees played well as a team, battling for the league lead early in the summer, but slumped in August in the AL pennant battle with
Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures (1995–2011) the winners of these games play each other at the ballpark of either team A or B (depending on who won the game). Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures (1995–2011) Because inclusion in the Major League Baseball postseason is based upon the teams' regular-season records, procedures exist to break ties between teams. This page described tie-breaking procedures in effect from 1995 through 2011. For current procedures, see Major League Baseball tie-breaking procedures. One game tie-breakers are played between teams tied for a division championship or wildcard berth on the day after the season was scheduled to end. Two teams that are