August 15, 2024

Best Batter Today

Aaron Judge and Juan Soto remained 1-2 respectively in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. Each posted a game score of 69 in the 10-2 win over the White Sox, which is pretty difficult when they bat back-to-back in the lineup. Judge went two for four with a walk, a double, and a home run. Judge broke two records with his 300th home run:

Judge hit the mark in his 955th game and 3,431st at-bat with a three-run drive in the eighth inning. The six-time All-Star and 2022 American League MVP drove a 3-0 up-and-in sinker from Chad Kuhl into the White Sox bullpen in left for his major-league-leading 43rd homer.

Ralph Kiner reached 300 homers in his 1,087th game, and Babe Ruth did it in his 3,831st at-bat.

“Those are some guys that have done a lot of great things in this game,” Judge said. “You throw around a lot of those names to people who don’t know baseball and they know who they are. It’s a special group to be in.”

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Kiner and Ruth saw different finishes to their careers. Ruth hit another 400+ home runs, and Kiner was out of the game a couple of years later.

Soto homered for the fourth time in five plate appearances leading off the game, then walked three times.

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Blue Jays remains third after going three for five with a double and a home run in the 9-2 win over the Angels. Bobby Witt Jr.of the Royals went two for four with a homer and a walk in a 4-1 win over the Twins for fourth place. Yordan Alvarez of the Astros drew two walks in a 2-1 win over Tampa Bay, a game decided in ten innings in which each team collected just two hits. The Astros won their eighth game in a row.

Pete Alonso of the Mets and Eugenio Suarez of the Diamondbacks tied for highest game score of the day, an 82. Alonso went four for four with a double and a home run in a 9-1 win over Athletics. Suarez went three for five with two doubles and a home run in the 11-4 win over the Rockies.

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