SAN DIEGO — Andrew McCutchen tied Roberto Clemente for third place on the Pittsburgh Pirates’ all-time home run list at 240 with a two-run shot off San Diego’s Randy Vasquez in the third inning Sunday.
It was the second homer in two games and fifth of the season for the 38-year-old McCutchen, who’s in his 17th big league season and 12th with Pittsburgh over two stints. It gave the Pirates a 2-1 lead, though Pittsburgh would later lose 6-4.
Clemente hit 240 homers from 1955 to 1972. He was 38 when he was killed on Dec. 31, 1972, in the crash of a plane he chartered to deliver emergency supplies for the survivors of an earthquake in Nicaragua. He was posthumously elected to the Hall of Fame in 1973.
Willie Stargell tops the Pirates’ list with 475 homers and Ralph Kiner is next with 301.
McCutchen has 324 homers in a career in which he has also played for Philadelphia, Milwaukee, San Francisco and the New York Yankees.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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