Home-run leaders after three months of the 2011 Major League Baseball season
The Major League Baseball regular season is at its peak, the batters are making fire-packed swings, some of the teams are reaching higher while others are struggling. However, in all of them, there are some sluggers, who are destroying the pitchers with
their powerful and devastating home-runs. Until now when the third month of the 2011 regular season has ended and the teams have their eyes on World Series champions’ title, some batting giants have made more than 20 home-runs.
Here is the list, which will bring you the top three home-run launchers in this season until the end of the June.
Mark Teixeira
The chart leader in the road to home-runs is none other than Mark Teixeira, who leads the list with his 25 home-runs. Despite being part of the New York Yankees' strong batting line-up, the 31-year-old right-hander still has maintained himself above other
top players, which includes Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, Curtis Granderson, Nick Swisher and Robinson Cano.
Starting from the very first game of this season on March 31 against the Detroit Tigers with a home-run, until now he has played 78 games and in their 292 at-bats, he has launched 49 runs on 71 hits including 63 RBIs. Teixeira was on the eighth position
in the list of the last year’s top home-run makers, but the impetus he is going will definitely make him the chart leader even at the end of the season. In his last game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Teixeira reached his 300th career home-run.
Jose Bautista
On the second straight season with the thrust to hold the first position as top home-runs launcher, the Toronto Blue Jays' right-fielder Jose Bautista is on second place this year with his 24 grand slams. Last year Bautista was chart leader with 54 homers
in 161 games. Bautista continues to have a monster season, showing no sign of slowing down and is now just six home-runs shy of his totals from 2010.
According to batting averages, Bautista is still a leader as he has made 24 homers in just 74 games that are four less than the Teixeira’s 78 games. His best home-run game was on May 15 against the Minnesota Twins when he launched three grand slams in one
game. With .659 slugging average and 61 runs on table, it would not take long for the 30-year-old right-hand slugger to snatch first position from Mark Teixeira.
Matt Kemp
The player, who was nowhere near the home-run kings due to his mere 28 homers last year, now has gained a movement that might take him to his best career performance. Until now, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ centre-fielder Matt Kemp has launched 22 home-runs
in 82 games with a slugging average of .628.
Kemp did not drop his momentum at all throughout the season and continues to touch massive home-runs on regular intervals. The longest gap between his two home-runs was of nine games from June 12, when he contributed a winning homer against the Colorado
Rockies, on June 24, as he blistered a dazzling home-run against the Los Angeles Angels.
Besides these players, the Chicago White Sox Paul Konerko, New York Yankees’ Curtis Granderson and Milwaukee Brewers’ Prince Fielder has made more than 20 home-runs in this season. It is anyone’s guess who will come out on top, as all of these players are
tremendous sluggers.
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