Freddie Freeman’s historic season retains getting higher as he has set one other Dodgers report in Sunday’s sport towards the Purple Sox.
Within the fifth inning, the Dodgers first baseman set the mark for many doubles in a single season in staff historical past when he drove a ball off of the Inexperienced Monster. His fiftieth double of the season and second of the sport handed Shawn Inexperienced who hit 49 doubles within the 2003 season.
That is additionally the primary time in Freeman’s profession that he has eclipsed 50 doubles in a season. His earlier finest was 47 set final 12 months.
Now that he has set the Dodgers report, Freeman nonetheless has time to get his identify onto the all-time single-season doubles leaderboard.
That report is presently held by Earl Webb who had 67 doubles for the Purple Sox within the 1931 season. Whereas he would nonetheless want 17 extra doubles to tie the report, that isn’t not possible for Freeman to do in September and the remaining video games in August.
In Could of this season, Freeman was capable of set the staff report for many doubles in a month with 17. He has an opportunity to match that quantity this month as he presently has 15 within the month of August with 4 extra video games to play.
If he may get ten extra doubles this season, Freeman could be the primary participant on this century to succeed in 60 doubles in a single 12 months. Todd Helton was the closest participant to get to 60 in 2000 when he received 59 doubles.
The final gamers to hit not less than 50 doubles in a season had been Nick Castellanos, Rafael Devers and Xander Bogaerts within the 2019 season.
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