Pujols Has Sports Betting Sights Set on Triple Crown, Sports betting in the summer months has been tremendous thus far in 2009. Often an arid desert of hopeless sports betting online activity, this year the summer months have been full of surprises. Baseball, often the only mainstay of the off-season sports betting action has also been awfully interesting, not the least of which, Albert Pujols’ pursuit of the elusive Triple Crown.
Sports betting fans that follow baseball closely have watched in awe as Pujols has put together one of the most impressive half seasons of baseball in many years, if not decades. Right now there is simply no one better in baseball. Pujols has dominated opposing pitchers in the sports betting online match ups and put up gaudy numbers in the process. For him to still be in Triple Crown contention at this point in the sports betting season is tremendous.
The Triple Crown, for the casual sports betting online fan, is winning the batting average, RBI and HR title in your respective league. Right now Pujols not only leads the NL in HRs, RBIs, he leads the entire MLB sports betting competition. He also leads the MLB sports betting competition in runs. Only 12 percentage points separate him from the Triple Crown at the moment. Hanley Ramirez of the Marlins currently leads the NL sports betting competition with a .345 BA (Pujols has a .333 BA). At the moment it seems that only Ramirez can prevent Pujols from capturing one of the greatest feats in competition.
What makes the Triple Crown such a special achievement in sports betting is the difficulty and the rarity with which it is accomplished. The last time the sports betting world saw a Triple Crown winner in the NL was 1937. In fact, it’s only happened four times in the past 100 years of sports betting. The last person to win the Triple Crown in either league was Carl Yastrimski in 1967, long before the era of sports betting online.
Pujols has the best chance of anyone since that time to lock up the tremendous honor. Aside from Gary Sheffield’s near miss in the early 1990’s no one has even come close to racking up the Triple Crown title in sports betting. But what makes Pujols’ effort all the more compelling is the fact that his team, the St. Louis Cardinals are also in first place of the NL Central and competing for a shot at the World Series. That Pujols’ individual success coincides with his team’s success is all the more impressive.