The Cubs have hit 140 home runs in the 90 games played so far this year.
That’s a pace for 252 home runs this season, which would break the team record of 235, set in 2004.
But they’re not the only ones heading toward a home-run record in 2019, according to this Wall Street Journal article:
The number of home runs being hit this season crosses into the territory of the absurd, with players at the All-Star break on pace to hit more than 6,600, a record. It would be more than 500 homers above the previous mark established in 2017 and nearly 1,000 more than were hit in 2000, the height of the steroid era.