For a team that's chasing home field advantage throughout the playoffs, 30-year-old OF Austin Jackson has been consistently delivering clutch hitting in under-the-radar fashion for Cleveland all summer long. With a 4-5, R, RBI evening in Anaheim, this is the type of low-profile yet still valuable outing Indians fans have been getting accustomed to seeing from Jackson while the rest of the country focuses on the crazy power surge that has swept the league. Jackson has just seven homers through 250 AB, but he's a high-AVG guy who has scored 22 runs since the beginning of August. Even though the counting stat totals for a short season don't leap off the page in a cursory scan of free agents, it's worth noting that Jackson's BA of .316 is better than that of dark horse AL MVP candidate Jose Ramirez. He's settled nicely into being the 2-spot hitter for the Tribe, and the RHB figures to draw several more starts against the Angels and Mariners while his streaking bat is hot.
Now, on to the rest of the league for some notable hitting efforts:
