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Through Friday
Player
McNeil, NY......................332
Yelich, MIL......................329
Reynolds, PIT...................324
Rendon, WAS..................323
Blackmon, COL................323
Marte, ARI......................318
Bellinger, Dodgers............314
HOME RUNS
Bellinger, Dodgers............. 42
Yelich, MIL ........................41
Alonso, NY........................40
Acuna, ATL........................36
Suarez, CIN.......................34
Freeman, ATL ....................34
Muncy, Dodgers .................33
Arenado, COL....................32
RUNS BATTED IN
Freeman, ATL.................. 104
Rendon, WAS ..................101
Bellinger, Dodgers............100
Escobar, ARI...................100
Bell, PIT ...........................99
Arenado, COL....................99
Alonso, NY........................97
Harper, PHI.......................92
STOLEN BASES
Acuna, ATL ....................... 30
Dyson, ARI........................27
Turner, WAS ......................26
Marte, PIT.........................24
Yelich, MIL ........................24
Robles, WAS .....................21
Story, COL ........................18
Margot, SD .......................17
Wong, STL ........................17
Tatis, SD...........................16SLUGGING PERCENTAGE
Yelich, MIL .....................683
Bellinger, Dodgers ............662
Rendon, WAS..................609
Blackmon, COL................598
Alonso, NY ......................590
Freeman, ATL...................571
Marte, ARI ......................571
Bell, PIT..........................570
Story, COL.......................565
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE
Yelich, MIL.....................422
Bellinger, Dodgers ............411
Soto, WAS ......................403
Rizzo, CHI.......................402
McNeil, NY......................400
Rendon, WAS..................400
RUNS SCORED
Acuna, ATL..................... 106
Bellinger, Dodgers ............101
Freeman, ATL..................100
Blackmon, COL..................96
Story, COL ........................93
Rendon, WAS....................92
Bryant, CHI .......................91
Yelich, MIL ........................90
Eaton, WAS ......................88
Muncy, Dodgers .................87
HITS
Marte, ARI ..................... 156
Acuna, ATL......................155
Blackmon, COL................152
Freeman, ATL ..................151
Albies, ATL ......................149
Arenado, COL ..................146
Yelich, MIL......................143
Bellinger, Dodgers ............142
4 tied............................141BASES ON BALLS
Hoskins, PHI..................... 98
Harper, PHI.......................85
Soto, WAS........................82
Grandal, MIL.....................78
Muncy, Dodgers .................78
Donaldson, ATL.................77
Bellinger, Dodgers..............74
Freeman, ATL ....................72
Belt, SF............................71
DOUBLES
Bell, PIT........................... 37
Seager, Dodgers................36
Rendon, WAS....................35
Blackmon, COL..................34
Baez, CHI.........................34
Albies, ATL........................33
Anderson, MIA...................33
Story, COL ........................33
Bryant, CHI .......................32
TRIPLES
Escobar, ARI..................... 10
Marte, ARI ..........................8
Albies, ATL..........................7
Blackmon, COL ...................7
Eaton, WAS........................7
Rosario, NY.........................7
ERA
Ryu, Dodgers.................2.00
Soroka, ATL....................2.41
Scherzer, WAS................2.41
deGrom, NY ...................2.56
Kershaw, Dodgers............2.71
Gray, CIN .......................2.92
Castillo, CIN ...................3.04
Buehler, Dodgers ............3.16
Corbin, WAS...................3.17
Hendricks, CHI................3.20W-L
Strasburg, WAS .............15-5
Fried, ATL......................14-4
Kershaw, Dodgers...........13-2
Nola, PHI.......................12-3
Ryu, Dodgers.................12-4
Castillo, CIN...................12-5
Marquez, COL.................12-5
SAVES
Yates, SD......................... 36
Smith, SF .........................29
Doolittle, WAS...................28
Iglesias, CIN.....................26
Jansen, Dodgers................26
Diaz, NY ...........................25
Hader, MIL........................25
INNINGS PITCHED
Bauer, CIN ...................179.2
Marquez, COL ...............174.0
Strasburg, WAS.............165.0
Bumgarner, SF ..............164.2
deGrom, NY..................162.0
Corbin, WAS.................161.2
Nola, PHI.....................161.1
Syndergaard, NY...........160.0
STRIKEOUTS
deGrom, NY................... 207
Scherzer, WAS .................192
Strasburg, WAS ...............191
Ray, ARI..........................187
Corbin, WAS....................184
Nola, PHI........................180
Castillo, CIN ....................179
COMPLETE GAMES
Buehler, Dodgers................ 2
Eflin, PHI............................2
12 tied..............................1NL LEADERS
Through Friday
Player
Brantley, HOU ..................337
LeMahieu, NY ..................332
Devers, BOS....................331
Martinez, BOS.................312
Alberto, BAL ....................310
Bogaerts, BOS .................308
Moncada, CHI.................305
Gurriel, HOU....................305
Altuve, HOU ....................300
Merrifield, KC ..................300
HOME RUNS
Trout, Angels.................... 42
Soler, KC..........................35
Kepler, MIN.......................34
Cruz, MIN .........................33
Torres, NY .........................32
Bregman, HOU..................31
3 tied .............................30
RUNS BATTED IN
Devers, BOS ................... 103
Trout, Angels .....................98
Abreu, CHI........................98
Bogaerts, BOS...................96
Gurriel, HOU .....................91
Soler, KC..........................88
Bregman, HOU..................86
LeMahieu, NY....................86
Rosario, MIN .....................85
Kepler, MIN.......................84
STOLEN BASES
Smith, SEA...................... 36
Mondesi, KC .....................31
Villar, BAL.........................28
Andrus, TEX......................25
Ramirez, CLE.....................24
DeShields, TEX..................20Kiermaier, TB....................19
Gordon, SEA .....................18
Lindor, CLE.......................18
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE
Trout, Angels..................654
Devers, BOS....................593
Martinez, BOS.................571
Springer, HOU..................565
Bregman, HOU ................560
Bogaerts, BOS .................559
Moncada, CHI.................555
Dozier, KC.......................552
Torres, NY .......................551
Santana, CLE..................549
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE
Trout, Angels ..................437
Santana, CLE..................413
Bregman, HOU................408
Brantley, HOU..................394
Voit, NY ..........................392
Betts, BOS......................388
Martinez, BOS.................386
Bogaerts, BOS.................383
RUNS SCORED
Betts, BOS..................... 118
Devers, BOS....................106
Trout, Angels ...................103
Bogaerts, BOS...................96
Bregman, HOU ..................96
Semien, OAK.....................92
Santana, CLE....................91
HITS
Devers, BOS................... 171
Merrifield, KC ..................162
Brantley, HOU ..................160
LeMahieu, NY ..................159
Bogaerts, BOS.................153
Polanco, MIN ..................151Martinez, BOS .................147
Gurriel, HOU....................146
Betts, BOS ......................144
Abreu, CHI ......................141
Semien, OAK...................141
BASES ON BALLS
Trout, Angels.................. 100
Bregman, HOU ..................93
Santana, CLE....................93
Betts, BOS........................88
Vogelbach, SEA.................75
Pham, TB .........................71
Smoak, TOR ......................71
DOUBLES
Devers, BOS..................... 48
Bogaerts, BOS.................. 44
Brantley, HOU................... 39
Benintendi, BOS............... 38
Betts, BOS....................... 37
Gurriel, HOU..................... 34
Semien, OAK.................... 34
TRIPLES
Merrifield, KC..................... 9
Mondesi, KC .......................9
Dozier, KC..........................8
Smith, SEA .........................8
Kiermaier, TB......................7
Meadows, TB ......................7
ERA
Cole, HOU.....................2.75
Verlander, HOU...............2.77
Morton, TB .....................2.85
Minor, TEX......................3.17
Miley, HOU .....................3.18
Giolito, CHI....................3.20
Bieber, CLE....................3.26
Fiers, OAK......................3.46
Berrios, MIN...................3.53W-L
German, NY ..................16-3
Cole, HOU .....................15-5
Rodriguez, BOS...............15-5
Verlander, HOU ...............15-5
Giolito, CHI ....................14-6
Lynn, TEX.......................14-9
Morton, TB.....................13-5
SAVES
Chapman, NY ................... 35
Osuna, HOU......................31
Hand, CLE ........................30
Colome, CHI.....................24
Kennedy, KC.....................22
Rogers, MIN ......................19
Robles, Angels ..................18
Giles, TOR.........................16
Treinen, OAK .....................16
Hendriks, OAK ...................15
INNINGS PITCHED
Verlander, HOU.............178.2
Greinke, HOU ...............171.2
Lynn, TEX .....................170.2
Bieber, CLE ..................168.1
Minor, TEX....................167.2
Keller, KC.....................164.0
Cole, HOU....................163.2
STRIKEOUTS
Verlander, HOU............... 239
Cole, HOU ......................238
Sale, BOS.......................218
Bieber, CLE .....................207
Boyd, DET.......................201
COMPLETE GAMES
Bieber, CLE ........................ 3
Giolito, CHI.........................3
2 tied................................2AL LEADERS
INSIDE BASEBALL
The Dodgers had their “go-get-
it-in-the-ocean” moment June 9,
when a defiant Max Muncy told
San Francisco Giants ace Madi-
son Bumgarner that if he didn’t
like the way he admired a long
home run, he should fish the ball
out of the bay beyond the right-
field wall in Oracle Park.
The New York Yankees became
“savages” on July 18, when second-
year manager Aaron Boone, dur-
ing a heated exchange with umpire
Brennan Miller, coined the term
that has come to define his club’s
relentless approach at the plate.
Neither team needed a rallying
cry at the time. The Dodgers were
11 games up in a National League
West race they should wrap up
around Labor Day. The Yankees
were eight games up in an Ameri-
can League East race they still
lead comfortably.
But it never hurts to inject a
little edge, a little swagger, and to
forge an identity during a grueling
six-month season that can include
stretches of drudgery for even the
best of clubs.
And if the catchphrase ends up
on a T-shirt? Hey, all the better.
“Any time something like that
happens, it gets guys fired up, and
it can definitely carry you for a
little while,” veteran outfielder
Brett Gardner said before the
Yankees ravaged Dodgers ace
Hyun-Jin Ryu in Friday night’s
10-2 victory.
“Listen, it’s a super long season,
and anything you can do to break
up the monotony of it all is good.
The fans really took to it. You
started seeing T-shirts and signsat the ballpark. It’s something that
everyone kind of fed off.”
The YouTube video of Boone’s
epic rant, mined from a YES Net-
work field mic, has been viewed
more than 5 million times. It starts
with Boone jawing with Miller
while a frustrated Gardner, after a
called third strike in the previous
at-bat, pounds the ceiling of the
dugout with his bat.
When an outside pitch to D.J.
LeMahieu is called a strike, Boone
snaps at Miller and is ejected.
Boone, the former third baseman
who went from the ESPN booth to
the Yankees dugout in 2018, walks
briskly to the plate, thrusts two
index fingers into Miller’s face and
berates the umpire.
“My guys are ... savages in that
... box, right?” Boone screams.
“And you’re having a real piece of ...
start to this game!” Boone claps in
rhythm with his final four words to
emphasize his point. “Tighten this
... up!”
The one-sided argument —
Miller, a rookie umpire, didn’t say
a word — took place in the third
inning of an eventual double-
header sweep of second-place
Tampa Bay, the start of a month-
long stretch in which the Yankees
won 23 of 32 games to push their
record to 83-42 on Aug. 17.
Not until last week’s four-game
losing streak, in which the Yankees
scored nine runs while getting
swept in a three-game series at
Oakland, were these savage beasts
tamed.
It was a temporary hold. New
York drove up Ryu’s pitch count
early Friday night and pummeled
him for seven runs and nine hits,
including solo homers by Aaron
Judge and Gary Sanchez and a
fifth-inning grand slam by Didi
Gregorius. Their bases-loaded,
ninth-inning rally fell short in
Saturday’s 2-1 loss.
“I think we’ve had that attitude
all year,” outfielder Mike Tauch-
man said of Boone’s label. “Maybe
that made it a little more public.”
This Yankees have a lethal
blend of power and patience, a mixof veterans and youngsters who
lay off pitches a smidge off the
plate and punish mistakes. As
good as the Dodgers are at grind-
ing out at-bats, the Yankees may
be more feisty.
They rank second in baseball
with an average of 4.05 pitches
seen per plate appearance. The
Dodgers (4.01) are fifth. The Yan-
kees lead baseball in 3-and-1
counts per plate appearance,
getting to the most favorable
hitting count 10.1% of the time. The
Dodgers (9.9%) are second.
“When you can make pitchers
fall behind not just once but twice,
three times, and make him throw
more pitches, that’s usually when
they’re going to make a mistake
and give you a better pitch to hit,”
said Gardner, who has an .810
on-base-plus-slugging percentage,
17 homers and 51 RBIs.
“We have a dangerous lineup
top to bottom. Guys aren’t scared
to come into the strike zone, but
they’re a little more careful, and
when they start doing that, you
can really take advantage.”
A staggering number of injuries
— the Yankees have sent a major
league-high 28 players to the in-
jured list this season — hasn’t
slowed their march toward Octo-
ber.
New York leads the major
leagues in runs (767) and ranks
second in homers (238) and OPS
(.832). The Dodgers have drawn
more walks, but the Yankees rank
ahead of them in runs, homers and
OPS.
Sanchez (29 homers) and
Judge (15 homers in 74 games)
have provided their usual power
while the Yankees await the return
of injured slugger Giancarlo Stan-
ton. LeMahieu (.330 average, .902
OPS, 21 homers, 86 RBIs) is having
a career year.
Second-year infielder Gleyber
Torres, 22, has 32 homers with a
.904 OPS and 76 RBIs. Defensive
whiz Gio Urshela, signed to play
third base at triple A, has provided
surprising pop with a .333 average,
.937 OPS and 18 homers. Tauch-man (.295, .914 OPS, 12 homers) is
having a breakout season in a
platoon role.
“It’s a dangerous lineup,” Judge
said. “One through nine, you have
guys who can leave the ballpark.
It’s a fun team to be a part of.”
The Yankees aren’t totally
reliant on the homer. They also
lead the league with a .300 average
with runners in scoring position.
But they’ve hit 58 homers in 24
games in August, a franchise
record for homers in a month and
tying the big league record for
homers in a month shared by
Baltimore (May 1987) and Seattle
(May 1999).
“For us, it’s control the zone,
create opportunities,” said Boone,
the former Villa Park High School
and USC standout. “We’ve done a
better job with runners in scoring
position ... but slug is one of the
biggest parts of a really good of-
fense.”
The Yankees and Dodgers have
the best records in their leagues,
but both have flaws that were not
addressed before the July 31 trade
deadline.
The Yankees failed to upgrade
a rotation that drops off consider-
ably after Domingo German,
James Paxton and Masahiro Tan-
aka. The Dodgers failed to bolster
a shaky bullpen.
If the Yankees and Dodgers
meet in the World Series, they’ll be
plenty familiar with each other,
and not just because they met this
weekend.
Their offenses are virtual car-
bon copies of each other, the Yan-
kees drawing the admiration of
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
for doing what the Dodgers do so
well.
“It’s actually fun to watch a
team approach with really good
players,” Roberts said. “I like guys
who hunt pitches and have a plan,
and if you don’t execute [against
them], you can get hurt. That’s the
good to great. That’s why teams
like them and us run starters’
pitch counts up consistently and
get to bullpens early.”Kelvin KuoAssociated Press
DESPITE A SLEWof injuries throughout the season, the New York Yankees have compiled an 84-47 record. Above, Gleyber Torres,
left, congratulates teammate Aaron Judge after his home run during the fourth inning of Saturday’s game at Dodger Stadium.‘The Babe’ and ‘Mr. October’
paved way for these ‘savages’
Much like this season’s
Dodgers, the Yankees boast
a deep lineup, prodigious
swagger and nicknames
worthy of cool T-shirts.MIKE DiGIOVANNA
ON BASEBALLThe Dodgers are on pace to finish
with way more than 100 wins this
season, which leads to the ques-
tion, how well have teams that have
won 100-plus games done in the
postseason since divisional play
began in 1969?
Fifty-four teams have won at least
100 games in a season since 1969.
Thirteen won the World Series, 13
lost in the World Series, 13 lost in
the league championship series, 13
lost in the league division series
and two didn’t make the playoffs.
Here’s a look at the most recent:
2005 St. Louis, 100-62 (d. San Diego
in NLDS, lost to Houston in NLCS)
2008 Angels, 100-62 (lost to Boston
in ALDS, 3-1)
2009 New York Yankees, 103-59 (d.
Minnesota in ALDS, d. Angels in
ALCS, d. Philadelphia in World Se-
ries)
2011 Philadelphia, 102-60 (lost to
St. Louis in NLDS)
2015 St. Louis, 100-62 (lost to Chi-
cago in NLDS)
2016 Chicago Cubs, 103-58 (d. San
Francisco in NLDS, d. Dodgers
in NLCS, d. Cleveland in World
Series)
2017 Dodgers, 104-58 (d. Arizona in
NLDS, d. Chicago in NLCS, lost to
Houston in World Series); Cleve-
land, 102-60 (lost to New York in
ALDS); Houston, 101-61 (d. Boston
in ALDS, d. New York in ALCS, d.
Dodgers in World Series)
2018 Boston, 108-54 (d. New York in
ALDS, d. Houston in ALCS, d.
Dodgers in World Series); Hous-
ton, 103-59 (d. Cleveland in ALDS,
lost to Boston in ALCS); New York
Yankees, 100-62 (d. Oakland in
wild-card game, lost to Boston in
ALDS)
STATS CORNER
Three up
Spreading cheer:On Monday’s
day off in New York, Yasiel Puig
rented a helicopter for a 45-minute
ride to the Catskill Mountains to
visit Camp Simcha, an overnight
summer camp for children with
cancer and other diseases, many
of which are terminal. The Cleve-
land Indians outfielder danced
and sang with kids, crowd-surfed,
played catch and tossed batting
practice, visited kids in the infir-
mary and signed dozens of auto-
graphs. “Today,” Puig tweeted,
“was one of the best days of my
life.”
Fantasy league:Nathan Patter-
son, signed by the Oakland Athlet-
ics after his brother posted a video
on Twitter of him being clocked at
96 mph during a speed-pitch chal-
lenge at Coors Field in July, struck
out the side in his minor league
debut in an Arizona rookie league
game Aug. 15. Patterson’s next
appearance didn’t go so well. The
23-year-old right-hander gave up
three earned runs and two hits in
two innings against a Brewers
rookie league team Tuesday.
Impact bat:No trade-deadline
acquisition has made a bigger
splash than Cubs outfielder
Nicholas Castellanos, who hit .384
with a 1.173 on-base-plus-slugging
percentage, eight homers, eight
doubles and 13 RBIs in his first 21
games after being acquired from
the Tigers. Castellanos became
the first player in Cubs history to
hit a first-inning homer in three
consecutive games. “Every time
[up],” Cubs first baseman An-
thony Rizzo told the Chicago
Tribune, “he’s doing damage.”
Three down
Thin-skinned:Shame on the
Houston Astros for caving to
pitcher Justin Verlander’s demand
that a Detroit Free-Press reporter
be barred from the clubhouse until
after the pitcher completed his
media session following Wednes-
day’s 2-1 loss to the Tigers. That
violates MLB rules requiring
players to be available to the me-
dia for interviews before and after
games. Whatever beef Verlander
has with that writer — he com-
plained of “unethical behavior in
the past” on Twitter — it shouldn’t
prevent him from doing his job.
Fall guy:The playoff hopes of the
defending World Series champion
Boston Red Sox may have ended
last week when pitcher Chris Sale
suffered a season-ending elbow
injury. The situation in Boston,
which had blown 23 of 47 save
opportunities entering Saturday,
has deteriorated to the point
where Dave Dombrowski, the
president of baseball operations
and architect of a team that won
three consecutive division titles
and a franchise-record 119 games
last year (including postseason),
might be on the hot seat.
Full house:When Taylor Guilbeau
made his big league debut Aug. 17,
he became the 40th pitcher used
by Seattle this season, tying a
record shared by the 2017 Mariners
and the 2014 Texas Rangers.
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