Over his past 25 games, Phillies shortstop Trea Turner is batting .330, with 36 knocks over 109 at-bats. This stretch won’t be regarded as scintillating or historic or any other word, expression or phrase generally reserved for the upper tier levels of “wow” on a big league diamond. But, Turner’s […]
There are six players in baseball history to swat and speed their way to a 60-double campaign – from George H. Burns for Cleveland in 1926 through Charlie Gehringer for the 1936 Tigers, all six flew up the charts over an 11-year span. So maybe it’s just not in the […]
In 1998, Texas cleanup hitter Juan González embodied that descriptive amazingly well and often, with eight different games featuring at least five RBI. No other player in the modern era has produced so many big-RBI games, although a few aren’t too far behind. In 1930, Lou Gehrig had seven such […]