infielder has made batting title history. LeMahieu clinched the American League batting title Sunday and became the first player in the modern era to win a batting title in each league. He'd previously won the National League batting title with the in 2016, hitting .348. LeMahieu led in batting average Josh Reddick Jersey both times."Guys don't win batting titles in both leagues, because you win it in one league, they probably keep you," manager Don Mattingly, the 1984 AL batting champ, told reporters following Saturday's game ( ), . "It's a different game nowadays."The modern era begins in 1900 and Hall of Famer Ed Delahanty won the batting title in each league at that time. Delahanty won the 1899 NL batting title with the and 1902 AL batting title with the Washington Senators, but the 1899 batting title is disputed, hence LeMahieu being the first in the modern era. , the only other player to win the batting title in multiple official leagues was Pete Browning. He won the Roy Oswalt Jersey 1882 and 1885 American A sociation batting titles with the Louisville Eclipse and the 1890 Players' League batting title with the Cleveland Infants. LeMahieu, an impending free agent poised to land a significant payday, is the first Yankee to win Carlos Correa Jersey the batting title since Bernie Williams hit .339 in 1998. Here is the final 2020 AL batting average leaderboard ():DJ LeMahieu, Yankees: .364 , : .322 , : .319 , White Sox: .318Anderson (.335) won the batting title last year and LeMahieu (.327) finished second. This is only the seventh time in history the same two players finished first and second (in either order) in the batting title race in back-to-back years, and the first time since Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams did it in 1956 and 1957.Of course, LeMahieu's batting title this year occurred in an unusual 60-game season as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, so it' Dallas Keuchel Jersey s difficult to consider it on par with a 162-game batting title. That said, you can only play the schedule you're given, and every team played the same number of games. This is baseball in 2020. LeMahieu won the batting title and Yankees teammate led MLB with 22 home runs this year. They are the first set of teammates to lead the league in batting average and homers since Hall of Famers Hank Aaron (.355) and Eddie Mathews (46 homers) with the 1959 , not counting single players who led in both categories."Everybody Jeff Bagwell Jersey wishes this year wouldn't have been so weird,'' Voit told reporters, , on Saturday. "You've got to just roll Tyler Clippard Jersey with it. I did what I could this year."Over in the National League, outfielder edged out Braves first baseman for the batting title. Soto hit .351 and Freeman hit .341. Soto is the first Nationals player to ever win the batting title and the third in franchise history, joining Al Oliver (.331 in 1982) and Tim Raines (.334 in 1986). Oliver and Raines did it during the Expos years.