Joe Mauer has enough at bats to earn another American League batting championship, and pretty soon, he'll have enough plate appearances.After going 3-for-3 with two walks Wednesday afternoon in the Minnesota Twins’ 5-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals, he spiked his batting average to .392, making him just eight plate appearances short of the 3.1 per game needed to qualify for another batting title.
Mauer, who already made catching-history by earning two AL batting trophies, has manager Ron Gardnehire on his side.
"If I have anything to do with it, he’ll qualify," the Twins skipper said. "I don’t mind writing his name in there. He’ll get plenty of at-bats."Man Muscles has nailed 14 homers, 44 RBIs and has walked 33 times this season. He also stole a base one time.
Speaking of the Twins, here is one picture of many great ones I received via text message from our very own Marea the other day, while she was visiting Busch Stadium on her recent midwest ballpark tour. Awesome.
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