Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani came up short in his bid to become the first National League player to win the Triple Crown since 1937.
's bid to win the National League Triple Crown and is set to become the first player since the 1800s to earn batting titles with three teams.Arráez went 1-for-3 on Sunday and posted a .314 average for San Diego, the lowest for an NL batting champion since Tony Gwynn's record-low .313 in 1988. After striking out and flying out in his first two at-bats, Arráez doubled in the sixth inning to reach 200 hits for the second straight season.
"This one was hard. I couldn't sleep last night," Arráez said, adding the pressure contributed to him striking out leading off -- just his 29th strikeout this season and third since Aug. 10. As long as Braves outfielder Marcell Ozuna doesn't go 9-for-9 on Monday, Luis Arráez, above, will have clinched his third career batting title. "I didn't think about the Triple Crown or how close I was to it today," Ohtani said through an interpreter."Today, I was focused on having quality at-bats."was the last NL Triple Crown winner in 1937. The most recent player to achieve the feat in either league was Detroit sluggersits third in the NL in batting at .
"It's special and it's an honor," Witt said."It's something that wasn't even a goal. You never think as a kid it would ever happen and now it happened."
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