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- Updated: September 27, 2016
ARLINGTON — After snapping his September slump, Brewers infielder Jonathan Villar is within two big swings and one 90-foot dash of some serious company.
A two-homer, five-RBI breakout in Monday’s 8-3 win over the Rangers at Globe Life Park gave Villar 18 home runs to go with his Major League-leading 59 stolen bases. With five games at hitter-friendly Texas and Colorado left on the schedule, Villar sits two home runs and one stolen base shy of the seventh 20-60 season in Major League history. It would be the first since Rickey Henderson hit 28 homers with 65 steals in 1990.
When those milestones were mentioned on Monday night, Villar took a deep breath and exhaled, “Woo!”
“I never think about that, because home runs are not my game,” Villar said. “This year I’m hitting home runs, so maybe next year. [Brewers manager Craig] Counsell has told me, ‘You can hit 30 home runs.’ I said, ‘That’s fine, but that’s not my …
