Edwin Encarnacion hit two home runs so far Thursday evening, bringing his season total to 18. The two dingers helped the Blue Jays to a 6-5 lead over the Royals in the seventh. With Nelson Cruz hitting 19 homers already two AL sluggers are making a run at Roger Maris‘s AL single season home run record of 61. This could be a very interesting race, as Cruz wears the PED taint and Edwin doesn’t. Since some people still consider the Maris record the only legitimate 61+ season, I wonder how the write will treat Cruz if he does indeed top 61. Normally, I would expect the person who hits that many home runs to win the MVP, but would the writers wonder if Cruz was getting help? Maybe Edwin will make it easy on everyone.