The American League MVP race was looking like a runaway for New York Yankees star Aaron Judge. A hot July by Kansas City Royals SS Bobby Witt Jr. changed that.
Just when the engravers were preparing to etch Aaron Judge's name on the 2024 American League MVP trophy, a new rival declared it a race.Bobby Witt Jr. was named AL Player of the Month for July on Saturday. Witt, 24, had never won a Player of the Month Award before, and he's the first Royals player to take home the honor since Billy Butler in Sept. 2009.Kansas City's 14 consecutive years without a Player of the Month Award was the longest active streak in the Majors.
No Royals player had a batting average that high in a single month since George Brett in July 1980.The cherry on top: Witt interrupted his torrid stretch of regular-season games to compete in the All-Star Game and Home Run Derby, where he narrowly finished as the runner-up to winner Teoscar Hernández.
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