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A right ankle injury, which sent him to the injury list twice, limited him to just 97 games and his .225 batting average and 78 hits were his lowest totals for a full season.

Oracle’s history, then, has been about swinging the bat, sometimes crushing the ball, sometimes missing, but in the latter cases, surviving to play another day.

Against the Blue Jays, he went 9 for 15—a batting average of .600—to go along with five runs scored and six driven in.

Judge brought his hands in, whipped his bat around and somehow connected.

A government report last year estimated that more than 75% of native reptile, bird, bat and freshwater fish species groups are threatened with extinction, or are at risk.