September 12, 2024

Best Batter Today

Brent Rooker of the Athletics moved up a spot to fourth, about 0.3 points ahead of Juan Soto of the Yankees in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. Rooker went two for five with two RBI in a 5-4 win over the Astros. Soto went one for five with a home run and two RBI in the Yankees 4-3, extra inning win over the Royals. His teammate, Aaron Judge went one for three with two walks to remain in first place.

Second place belongs to Yordan Alvarez of the Astros. He moved past Vladimir Guerrero Jr of the Blue Jays with with two for four game, while Guerrero went one for four in a 6-2 loss to the Mets, the Blue Jays wasting another near no-hitter by Bowden Francis.

The best game score of the day belonged to Eugenio Suarez of the Diamondbacks. He went four for four with two home runs in the 14-4 win over the Rangers. That was good for a score of 88. He jumps from 13th place to 6th place! He’s hitting .500/.558/1.132 in September.

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