It’s official.  There have been more home runs hit in the 2017 Major League Baseball season than in any other season ever before.  Why?  How?  Host Mitch Gatzke has given up trying to find an explanation.  It’s time to simply enjoy what we’re witnessing.  CC Sabathia has moved to 18th on the all-time strikeouts leaderboard.  Is his career worthy of enshrinement in the Hall of Fame though?  Mitch hopes it will be by the time CC decides to hang ’em up.  The Red Sox and Yankees are running neck and neck in the AL East.  Who has the easier road down the stretch and will that even matter?  Mitch will be in Cincinnati watching the Sox this weekend, too.  Speaking of Cincinnati, Joey Votto is the modern day Ted Williams and deserves the 2017 NL MVP Award, despite being stuck on a last place team.  Hear Mitch explain why one of baseball’s deeply embedded unwritten rules must be broken this year.

Topics:

• The most home runs ever


• Is CC Sabathia a Hall of Famer?


• Photo finish in the AL East


• Joey Votto for NL MVP

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• Diamondbacks broadcasters Bob Brenly, Steve Berthiaume hitting stride three years into partnership [Zach Buchanan/AZ Central]


• DYK? MLB’s HR record eclipsed in ’17 [Matt Kelly/MLB.com]


• Sabathia survives bunt barrage, moves up on career strikeout list [Greg Joyce/New York Post]


• The 12 unlikeliest MVP Award winners [Joe Posnanski/MLB.com]


• MLB players who have won MVP on losing teams [USA Today Sports]


• Milwaukee’s hopes still brewin’ [Cliff Corcoran/Sports on Earth]


• Johnny Cueto made Hunter Pence slow down his homer trot so he wouldn’t pass him on the bases [Adrian Garro and Chris Haft/MLB.com]

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