The idle Aaron Judge of the Yankees remains atop the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. His closest competition now comes from Brent Rooker of the Athletics. Rooker went two for five with a home run and two RBI in a 9-2 Cubs win. The also idle Vladimir Guerrero Jr. of the Blue Jays drops to third place. Yordan Alvarez of the Astros posted a one for four for fourth place, and in the same game Luis Arraez of the Padres kept his hit streak alive with a two for four with a double and sits in fifth place. The Padres took the game 3-1.

Andrew Benintendi of the White Sox posted the best game score of the day, an 82. He blasted two home runs and two walks as Chicago wins their third game in a row, an 8-4 victory over the Angels.

Benintendi posted a miserable four months of play. Through July 25th he batted .196/.252/.308, with just 16 extra-base hits. That put him 157th in the Baseball Musings Batter Rankings. Since then he hit .287/.362/.567 with 22 extra-base hits to rise to 11th in the Rankings.