Aaron Judge (New York Yankees) and Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers), who have led the record streak in the U.S. Major League Baseball (MLB), have completed great challenges side by side.
Judge did not play in the final regular league game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on the 30th (Korea Standard Time) and heated the bench.
With this, Judge ended 2024 with 58 homers and 144 RBIs, the most by any major league hitter.
Judge, who hit 62 home runs in 2022 to break the previous American League season record (61) in 61 years, sought to reach 60 home runs for the second time in his life, but unfortunately failed to achieve his goal. 토토사이트
However, with Juan Soto, who posted 109 RBIs with 41 home runs, he led his team to the American League’s highest winning percentage team and recorded all of his season’s most RBIs and OPS (On base plus slugging percentage, 1.159), he showed a strong performance as an MVP candidate in the league.
Ohtani, who opened a new era of 50 home runs and 50 steals for the first time in MLB history, added one stolen base in the final game of the season against the Colorado Rockies, leaving a cartoonish figure of 54 home runs and 59 steals.
Ohtani, who had surgery on his right elbow in September last year and played only as a batter this year without playing as a pitcher, showed off his special ability to dominate the big league with his bat.
Ohtani, who wore a Dodgers uniform this season for a whopping $700 million (about 918.4 billion won) over 10 years, became the leading MVP candidate as soon as he moved to the National League, ranking first in home runs, RBIs (130), OPS (1.036) and second in batting average (0.310) and hits (197).
Ohtani’s Dodgers also advanced to the postseason as the league’s highest winning team.
San Diego Padres pinch hitter Luis Arraez hit .314 to set the best record for the league batting champion on different teams for the third consecutive year, following the Minnesota Twins in 2022 and the Miami Marlins in 2023.
Araes will become the national league’s batting king only after the doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and the New York Mets, who will play their last match for the postseason on October 1.
Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Scubal topped the American League with multiple wins (18 wins), ERA (2.39), and strikeouts (228), becoming the first pitcher to win a triple crown in 13 years since 2011 based on the full season of 162 games per team.
