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Dodger Blue > Dodgers News > Trea Turner Becomes 7th Dodgers Player To Win NL Batting Title
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Trea Turner Becomes 7th Dodgers Player To Win NL Batting Title

Blake Williams
October 3, 2021
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For the first time in 58 years, the Los Angeles Dodgers have the National League batting title winner as Trea Turner won the crown after hitting .328 in 148 games played.

Turner becomes the seventh player in Dodgers franchise history to win the award and it marks the eighth time a player from the organization has earned the honor.

The majority of Dodgers batting titles have come while the club was still in Brooklyn. Lefty O’Doul (.368, 1932), Pete Reiser (.343, 1941), Dixie Walker (.357, 1944), Jackie Robinson (.342, 1949) and Carl Furillo (.344, 1953) all won before the team moved to L.A. in 1958.

Prior to Turner, Tommy Davis is the only other Dodgers player to win the award with the club in L.A. He took it home in 1962 and 1963 after hitting .346 and .326, respectively.

Turner hit .322 for the Washington Nationals this season in 96 games before being traded to the Dodgers at the deadline.

With the Dodgers, Turner hit .338 in 52 games but faced some competition near the end of the season from former teammate Juan Soto, who went on a historic stretch in late September.

“He texted me a little while ago and told me he was coming for me, which I had no doubt in my mind that he was gonna be putting good at-bats together,” Turner recently said about the batting title race with Soto.

“So he told me he was coming and he did that, but there’s so much unknown. You don’t know how the at-bats are gonna go, how you’re gonna feel, who you’re facing, this and that. “So we had a few text messages back and forth but seeing me and him up there is pretty cool.”

Soto ended up as the runner-up for the award, finishing with a .313 average.

For the season, Turner posted an MVP-caliber stat line, hitting .328/.375/.536 with 34 doubles, 28 home runs, 32 stolen bases, 107 runs scored and a 141 wRC+. He closed out the regular season in a flurry, clubbing two grand slams in three games.

Turner for NL MVP?

Along with batting average, Turner led the NL in stolen bases, hits (195) and total bases (319). The production and strong close to the season has thrust him into the MVP discussion.

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Blake Williams is a journalist from Reseda, Calif., who is currently the Managing Editor for Dodger Blue. He previously worked as a Managing Editor for Angels Nation, as a staff writer at Dodgers Nation, as the Managing Editor and Sports Editor for the Roundup News at L.A. Pierce College, and as an Opinion Editor for the Daily Sundial at California State University, Northridge. Blake graduated Cum Laude from CSUN with a major in journalism and a minor in photography/video. He is now pursuing his master's degree from the University of Alabama. Blake is also always open to talk Star Wars with you. Contact: Blake@mediumlargela.com
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