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From 1901 through 2010, 30 pitchers and 13 batters won a Triple Crown. With the various combinations and permutations involved in the dispersal of the achievement among the teams throughout the years, only once has a club claimed both a Triple Crown pitcher and hitter in the same year. In 1934, Yankees pitcher Lefty Gomez led the American League with 26 wins, a 2.33 ERA and 158 strikeouts. On games football the offensive end, Lou Gehrig (somehow a fifth-place finisher in the Most Valuable Player Award voting) batted .363, clouted 49 home runs and drove in 165 -- all league-leading figures. It's quite an impressive double-dip for the franchise that can claim any number of success stories. On the flip side, New York won 94 games that season and finished second, seven games behind the Detroit Tigers. games football Now, as the 2011 season is six days away from concluding and Clayton Kershaw is leading the National League in ERA and strikeouts and is tied for the league lead in wins, the Los Angeles Dodgers might just have a chance to replicate the 1934 Yankees' dual feat of claiming a Triple Crown winner on both sides of the ball (hello, Matt Kemp), and of those two command performances still not being eno games football ugh for a postseason run. Kemp went 4-for-5 with three doubles and a home run Thursday, as the Dodgers beat the Giants, 8-2. Kemp was the first Dodgers player with four extra-base hits in a game since Juan Pierre had three doubles and a triple on May 29, 2007. With the performance, Kemp could now conceivably challenge for the Triple Crown. He leads the NL with 118 RBIs (five ahead of Ryan Howa games football rd), is second in the league with 36 home runs (one behind Albert Pujols) and is third with a .326 batting average (four points behind Ryan Braun). Pujols Pujols went 1-for-5 and hit his 37th home run of the year to extend his streak of reaching base safely to 38 games. The homer left Pujols at 98 RBIs and gave him the longest on-base streak of the season in the NL. The Rays' Johnny Damon owns th games football e longest streak in 2011 -- 39 games. Pujols leads the NL with his 37 home runs. If he finishes as the league leader, he will be the first NL player since Mike Schmidt in 1974-76 to lead the league the league for three consecutive years. Pujols would be the first Cardinals player to lead the league in home runs for three straight seasons. Johnny Mize led in back-to-back years in 1939-40, and the games football n Mark McGwire matched that feat by leading the NL in 1998-99. WeeksOakland's Jemile Weeks went 3-for-3 with his first career home run and 24th double of the season. The homer came in Weeks' 91st game. Weeks 90-game homerless drought to start his career was the longest for an Athletics player since Mike Bordick opened his career with a 132-game homerless streak from 1990-92. Over the past 50 se games football asons, Weeks' homerless streak at the start of a career is the fifth-longest for an Athletics player, behind John Donaldson's 160 games, Bordick's 132, Jose Tartabull's 125 and Ted Kubiak's 103. The two extra-base hits gave Weeks a total of 33 through his first 91 games. For the Athletics franchise since 1919, that total through a player's first 91 games tied Weeks with six others for the 11th m games football ost. McGwire had 47 through his first 91 games, for the most. The others at 33: Sam Chapman, Bill Nagel, Bobby Crosby, Jim Poole, Woodie Held, and Craig Paquette. IndiansIn Cleveland's 11-2 win over the White Sox, Jeanmar Gomez won his fifth consecutive start, allowing two runs on four hits in six innings. Over this streak, Gomez owns a 1.80 ERA in 30 innings. With the victory, Gomez matched games football Justin Masterson for the Indians' longest streak of starts won in 2011. Masterson opened the year by winning his first five starts and owned a 2.18 ERA in 33 innings during his winning streak. Asdrubal Cabrera drove in five runs as part of a three-hit, one-homer night. The five RBIs gave Cabrera 92 for the season -- the most by an Indians shortstop since Lou Boudreau had 106 in 1948. Cabrera's games football 25 homers at short are the most in Indians history for the position. Cabrera's OPS+ this season stands at 122 -- the highest for an Indians shortstop since Jhonny Peralta's 137 in 2005. Kosuke Fukudome and Jason Kipnis hit back-to-back home runs to lead off the game for the Indians. It was the first time Cleveland's first two batters of the game hit homers since May 23, 2007, when Grady Sizemo games football re and Casey Blake did it. MooreMaking his first career start and third career appearance, the Rays' Matt Moore fanned 11 in five shutout innings and got the win as the Rays beat the Yankees, 15-8. Moore is the fourth pitcher in the past 10 years to have at least 11 strikeouts in one of his first three career appearances. The others: Felix Hernandez on Aug. 15, 2005 (11 strikeouts in his third games football career appearance, third career start); Stephen Strasburg on June 8, 2010 (14 K's in first career appearance); Mike Minor on Aug. 22, 2010 (12 K's in third career appearance, third career start). Moore is 22 years and 96 days old. It is the fourth time this season a pitcher that young fanned as many as 11. The Giants' Madison Bumgarner is responsible for the other three. Moore is the only pitch games football er in the live-ball era to strike out at least 11 batters in a start that featured no runs allowed and no more than five innings pitched. Three other pitchers before him had racked up 10 K's in a five-shutout-innings start. Those three: Scott Kazmir on Aug. 17, 2006 (also for Tampa Bay), Yovani Gallardo on April 21, 2010 and John Smoltz on April 17, 2008. Here and there #149; Brad Peacock allow games football ed one hit in 5 2/3 shutout innings and picked up the win as the Nationals beat the Phillies, 6-1, and completed a four-game sweep. The last time the Montreal/Washington franchise swept the Phillies in a four-game set was Aug. 25-28, 2003. #149; The Blue Jays beat the Angels, 4-3, in 12 innings and improved to 11-0 in extra-inning home games this season. According to the Blue Jays media notes, games football Toronto is seeking to become the only team in the live-ball era to have at least 10 extra-inning home victories and not suffer a single defeat. The 1949 Indians (13 extra-inning wins at home), '59 Pirates (13), '65 Pirates (11) and 2010 Orioles (10) each had one extra-inning loss at home. #149; Carlos Lee went 1-for-2 and drove in four runs in the Astros' 9-6 win over the Rockies. Lee has 42 R games football BIs since the All-Star break -- tied with Braun and Justin Upton for the seventh-most in the NL. Kemp leads the NL with 51 RBIs in the second half. games football
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