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Stats of the Day: Votto’s 2nd half one of the best
- Updated: September 19, 2016
Here are three interesting items from around the big leagues on Sunday …
• Joey Votto went 4-for-4 with a double, a homer and a walk. Thanks to an historic second half, he now has a .319/.432/.531 slash line for the season. In 257 plate appearances since the All-Star break, Votto is hitting .412/.498/.649. There have been three times a player has collected at least 200 plate appearances after the All-Star break and assembled a .400/.500/.600 line while doing so: Ted Williams in 1941 and ’57, and Barry Bonds in 2002. The last player to post a .400 average in at least 200 plate appearances after the break was Ichiro Suzuki in 2004, when he batted .429.
• The Orioles got solo homers from …
