NEW YORK – Miami's Dee Gordon had three hits on the final day of the season to edge Washington's Bryce Harper for the NL batting title Sunday, and Detroit's Miguel Cabrera won his fourth AL championship in five years.
Harper entered with a tiny edge, .330754 to .330606, but Gordon doubled on David Buchanan's first pitch of the game at Philadelphia, then homered and singled in his next two at-bats. Gordon's 3-for-4 day lifted his average to .333, while Harper wound up at .330 when he went 1-for-4 at the New York Mets.
"It feels kind of surreal," said Gordon. "I don't think it hit me yet."
Harper was batting .342 before tailing off in his final 10 games.
Cabrera, who did not play Sunday, finished at .338 to win by a huge margin in the AL over Boston's Xander Bogaerts, who was second at .320.
Baltimore's Chris Davis homered twice Sunday to finish with 47 and led the major leagues for the second time in three years.
Toronto's Josh Donaldson topped the AL in RBI (123) and runs (122).
Colorado's Nolan Arenado and Harper shared the NL home run title at 42. Twenty players hit 30 or more homers, up from 11 last year, and the big league batting average of .254 was its highest since 2012.