Under baseball rules, the post-season does not count in the stats, but a sudden-death tie-breaker game does count in the stats. Holliday finished the regular season one RBI behind Ryan Howard, but knocked in two in the tie-breaker, thus finishing one ahead.Tough break for Howard, but that's the way the ball bounces. Ernie Banks lost a share of the homer lead in 1959 when Ed Mathews had additional at-bats in the tie-breaker process, which used to be a best of three in the NL.
Holliday also won the batting championship amd finished fourth in home runs. Stats like that would normally add up to a sure MVP, but it remains to be seen how the voters will adjust for Coors Field in the calculations. If you double Holliday's road stats, he would have finished at .301 with 22 homers. A very good hitter, but not at an MVP level. On the other hand, there is no overwhelmingly strong MVP candidate in the NL this year, and Holliday performed brilliantly down the stretch, so ...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
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Holliday uses the extra game to win the RBI crown
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Jimmy Rollins, said it then did it!
ReplyDeleteMVP worthy also first player since Willie Mays(?) to go 20,20,20,20 which was actual 30+ homers and 40+ steals
...if your not into stats how about being the catalyst in an unprecedented 7 games back with 17 to play division championship run to put your team in the playoff for the first time in 14 years,...after stating that your team was the team to beat when they were 4-11 ???