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Article: Beltre reaches 40 HRs in grand style
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- August 25, 2004
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MONTREAL -- Adrian Beltre continued to make his case for the
National League MVP award Thursday night, swatting a fifth-inning
grand slam off Montreal's Rocky Biddle that put the game on ice for
the Dodgers and made Beltre just the 12th third baseman in major-
league history to hit 40 home runs in a season.
Beltre, who leads the majors in home runs, has an outside shot at
becoming the 22nd player in history to hit 50 in a season, especially
if he continues his current pace. He has homered 10 times in the
Dodgers' last 15 games, and the Dodgers have 38 games to go.
"I don't know if I'll get to 41 right now," Beltre said. "But this
means a lot. Forty is a number I couldn't even think about the ...