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The Triple Crown winners who most recently became eligible for the Hall are Pedro Martínez and Randy Johnson. Both were elected to the Hall of Fame in 2015, each in their first year of eligibility. [31] The most recent major league pitchers to achieve the feat are Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal in 2024. [32]
This category contains categories of baseball players who have won the Triple Crown of hitting or pitching over the course of their career. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.
In 2012, Cabrera became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to win the batting Triple Crown, leading the AL with a .330 batting average, 44 home runs, and 139 runs batted in (RBI), earning him the AL MVP award that year. In the first half of 2013, Cabrera was on pace to shatter his numbers from his prior Triple Crown season. He ...
Joe Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals was the last NL Triple Crown winner in 1937. The most recent player to achieve the feat in either league was Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera in 2012, which ...
Baseball portal; A Major League Baseball Triple Crown is recorded by: a hitter who leads either the American League or National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in in the same season. a pitcher who leads either the American League or National League in earned run average, wins, and strikeouts in the same season.
The following Major League Baseball players have won the National League hitters' Triple Crown by leading the National League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in in the same season. Pages in category "National League hitting Triple Crown winners"
A Triple Crown is right up there among the greatest accomplishments in sports — there's a reason it took 37 years between Affirmed's sweep in 1978 and American Pharoah's triumph in 2015.
Their final two games were against Minnesota with the pennant and home run title (hence, the triple crown) on the line. In the Saturday game, Yastrzemski went 3 for 4 with a home run and 4 RBI. Killebrew also homered, but the Red Sox won, 6–4. Thus the teams went into the final game tied for first place, and Yastrzemski and Killebrew were ...