Hanley Ramirez Ties Red Sox Record with 10 Home Runs in April

Boston Red Sox outfielder Hanley Ramirez hit his 10th home run of the season during Wednesday's 4-1 win over the Toronto Blue Jays, tying a franchise record set by David Ortiz in 2006 for most home runs by the end of April, per ESPN Stats & Info.

The record-tying blast was a two-run homer off Blue Jays pitcher R.A. Dickey in the third inning, with none other than Ortiz coming around to score on the play.

Just one day earlier, Ramirez had hit the 200th home run of his impressive career, going deep off Blue Jays reliever Aaron Loup in the eighth inning of a 10-8 Red Sox loss.

The 31-year-old former shortstop has five home runs in his last six games, allowing him to finish the month of April with a .293 batting average, .341 on-base percentage, .659 slugging percentage, 22 RBI and 16 runs, in addition to his MLB co-leading 10 home runs.

Thursday's long ball briefly gave Ramirez sole possession of the top spot on the home run leaderboard, but Seattle Mariners outfielder Nelson Cruz went deep off the Texas Rangers just a few hours later to pull even with his countryman.

The Dominican sluggers thus far look like arguably the two best offseason additions made by any team, as both would have an argument for American League MVP honors if the season were to end today.

Of course, it's only fair to mention that Ramirez's first season in left field has been an adventure, while the defensively challenged Cruz has made seven of his 21 starts as a designated hitter.

Based on Fangraphs' measure of the statistic, Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, Kansas City Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas and Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Adrian Gonzalez are currently the American League co-leaders with 1.5 WAR.

Cruz sits at an impressive 0.9 WAR, while Ramirez's defense and baserunning grade out so poorly that he's somehow deemed to have been worth just 0.3 WAR, despite becoming the first player in Red Sox history with 10 home runs and 23 RBI or more in April, per the team's official twitter account.