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Adrian Beltre Hit Two Important Home Runs Last Night
Beltre homered twice last night, winning a game for the Rangers and letting him climb the all-time home run leaderboard.

Behind Alex Rodriguez (696), Albert Pujols (579), and David Ortiz (527), there's a sizable drop off to the next active player on the all-time home run list.

Entering last night's action, there was actually a three-way tie for 47th all-time between Mike Piazza and active sluggers Miguel Cabrera and Adrian Beltre, all of whom had belted 427 career home runs.

And Beltre probably has a personal vendetta against Cabrera, who once touched his head.

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You should never try to touch his head.


Well, last night against the Athletics, Beltre got his revenge on Cabrera and pounded a seventh-inning homer off of John Axford to close a 6-4 gap to 6-5, going one-up on Cabrera's all-time homer total in the process.

Then, in the ninth inning, with Nomar Mazara on first, the same 6-5 deficit, two outs, and just a 10.4% chance to win the game, according to FanGraphs, Beltre did this.


His 429th career homer clinched the game for the Rangers -- who are now 58-42 and own a 70.1% chance to reach the playoffs -- and earned him some slight breathing room all alone at 47th all-time on the home run list.

And it helped his team win a game that they looked likely to lose since the first inning, per FanGraphs.


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