Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman are having remarkable performances this season. Their combined OPS now over 1.000, if it stood, would be the best in Major League Baseball history for hitters in the top two spots in the lineup — and by a large margin.
Betts and Freeman are competing for the National League MVP. Currently, Betts is the favorite to earn the award since he’d had an unbelievable August.
Freeman, on the other hand, already has 51 doubles this season. Barring an injury, Freeman should have at least 60 doubles this season, becoming the first player to do that since the 1930s.