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Murphy in rare air with near-.400 average
- Updated: May 31, 2016
PHILADELPHIA — In his latest display of hitting proficiency, Daniel Murphy collected three hits — including a solo homer in the fourth and the go-ahead two-run single in the eighth — to catapult the Nationals to a 4-3 victory Monday night at Citizens Bank Park.
He has 45 hits in May through 28 games (26 starts), the most in club history for any given month and most by a National League player in a month since Melky Cabrera collected 51 hits for the Giants in May 2012. That gives him 25 multi-hit games in the 50 games he’s played this season. After his performance on Memorial Day, Murphy’s average stands at .395, the best in the Majors.
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Murphy has been reluctant to talk about himself during this run, maintaining that he is focused on getting a good pitch to hit and putting a good swing on it. But the rest of the …
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