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Stats of the Day: Freeman an on-base machine
- Updated: September 28, 2016
Here are three interesting items from around the big leagues on Tuesday …
• Atlanta’s Freddie Freeman homered, singled, drew a walk and scored three runs in his team’s 7-6 comeback win over the Phillies to extend his streak of reaching base safely to 45 consecutive games (and his hitting streak to 29 games). Freeman has the third-longest on-base streak for a Braves player since the franchise moved to Atlanta in 1966, behind only Gary Sheffield’s 52-game streak in 2002 and Dale Murphy’s 48-game mark in 1987. Freeman is on pace to be the first Braves player to lead the National League in OPS+ since Chipper Jones in 2007, and the first to lead the NL in extra-base hits since Murphy in 1984.
• In Detroit, Justin Verlander struck out 12 over 7 …
