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Originally Posted by familytoad
Of course, the interesting part here is that he's actually hitting .346 and only needed ONE MORE plate appearance (to get to 502) to qualify for the league batting leader title...
Since he won't be playing the rest of the year, he cannot go down, and conceivably if Andrew McCutchen drops a little ( he's currently 12 pts higher at .358), Melky could have had the highest batting average in the NL.
That one plate appearance could avoid a *major controversy about having the season batting leader being suspended!!
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Read this:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-bi...u0u2uNPFuFCLcF
I believe he just gets an 0-1 tacked on to his total and he still qualifies at .346. I heard conflicting views on this rule today on the radio and am not totally sure. Hopefully McCutchen beats him outright anyway...