Regular Season
- On May 8, 1998, Mark McGwire hit career home run number four-hundred in his four-thousand seven-hundred twenty-sixth at bat, which was faster than any other player in history.
- Facing Liván Hernández on May 16, 1998, McGwire hit his longest home run of the 1998 season, an estimated shot of five-hundred forty-five feet.
- Mark McGwire hit single season home run number fifty on August 20, 1998, becoming the first Major League ballplayer in history with three consecutive fifty plus home run seasons.
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