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During his three seasons as a member of the Oakland Athletics, Kurt Suzuki has earned a lot of respect for many areas of his game.
His patience at the plate. His consistency behind the plate. His surprising ability run the bases for a catcher. The role of slugger, however, has not been one of them. But that may be changing.
For the second night in a row, the Baldwin High grad went deep, lifting his season total to a career-best eight home runs. Suzuki is also slugging percentage of .533 over the past eight games.
On Tuesday, Suzuki hit one-out solo homer in the first inning in support of Gio Gonzalez, helping the A's to a 6-0 win over the Rangers.
Last night, he delivered one of Oakland's four homers as the last-place Athletics again beat the contending Rangers, this time by a score of 7-5.
By going 1-for-3, Suzuki upped his team-leading hit total to 108, which ranks second among all major-league catchers, and upped his average to a highly respectable .280 to go with 46 runs and 50 RBI.
Meantime, Shane Victorino had a double in four at-bats in Philadelphia's 7-0 win over Colorado.
Victorino's .317 average ranks eighth in the National League. He's also in the top ten in a variety of offensive categories. He's tied for second the NL with 131 hits, fifth with 74 runs, sixth in triples with six, ninth with 28 doubles.
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