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Article: WHEN IT COMES TO BELTRE, LET FREEDOM WANE.(Sports)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2004
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Byline: KEVIN MODESTI
Is it the raw numbers that make watching Adrian Beltre so much fun this summer, the stats that place him in gaudy historic frames with Dodgers greats Babe Herman, Duke Snider and Ron Cey? Is it the way Beltre has carried the club to first place? Or is it the fact Beltre is doing it on two wobbly legs?
Sure, it's each of those things.
But it's something else as well.
What makes you lean forward in your bleacher seat when Beltre carries his bat to the plate these days is the thought that his display of some of the best all-around baseball in the Dodgers' memory may be so fleeting.