While pitchers continue to dominate Major League Baseball, there has actually been a spike in home runs over the last year. Major Leaguers have hit 3,497 home runs in 1,717 games this season, for a rate of 1.018 home runs per game per team. The rate is below the record 1.172 set in 2000, but home runs are up 8.68 percent over last year, when they bottomed out at .937 per game.