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CarGo leads the National League in hitting (.340) and RBIs (100) and ranks third in home runs (32), trailing the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols (35).

How rare an accomplishment would it be? The NL has not had a Triple Crown winner since the Cardinals’ Joe Medwick pulled it off in 1937. That was just two years after Babe Ruth played his final game.

It’s not uncommon for one team to have both the MVP and Cy Young. In fact, it once happened in four consecutive years: 1990 Oakland A’s (MVP, Rickey Henderson; Cy Young, Bob Welch), 1991 Atlanta Braves (Terry Pendleton, MVP; Tom Glavine, Cy Young); 1992 A’s (Dennis Eckersley, both awards); and 1993 Chicago White Sox (Frank Thomas, MVP; Jack McDowell, Cy Young).

Of course, all baseball fans (except entitled Yankees fan) can really ask for is drama in September with the dream of more drama in October. These Rockies are giving us all of that.

Trivia time

As mentioned above, just once in MLB history has a team had a player win the Triple Crown and a pitcher win the Cy Young Award in the same season. Name the team, the players and the year. (Answer below).

Polling

Monday’s “Lunch Special” poll asked readers what aspect of the 2010 Broncos most concerned them. With more than 1,900 votes cast, three categories stood out:

Quotable

“If you love the game, it’s going to love you back.” — Brewers closer after he notched his 600th career save on Tuesday.

Reader’s rant

“I agree with the players who are against the additional games. Do we really need that much football? I love the NFL as much as the next guy, but if it’s not broke, why fix it? They have delayed the start of the season a week in the last 11 years, have stretched out the playoffs well into February … They have the draft on prime-time television now, and have their own cable network. Do we really need two extra games?” — Jon-Michael DeShazer, posting on The Denver Post’s story about

In case you missed it

There was a report from Yahoo Sports on Tuesday saying that the Heisman Trophy Trust will strip Bush of the award he won in 2005. The report said the action will come by the end of September and will leave the most prestigious individual award in college football vacant for 2005.

The NCAA has ruled Bush received lavish gifts from two inexperienced sports marketers who were trying to woo him. The men paid for everything from hotel stays and a rent-free home for Bush’s family apparently to a limousine and a new suit when he accepted his Heisman in New York in December 2005.

Bush would become the first player in the 75-year history of the award to have the honor taken away. Not even O.J. Simpson was stripped of the award.

My gut reaction was that Bush should lose his Heisman. But after reading a column by ‘s Jemele Hill, I’ve since changed my mind.

“Even 1968 Heisman winner O.J. Simpson, who is currently serving a 33-year prison term for his role in an armed robbery and previously beat a double-murder charge, thinks the Heisman trustees are being phony. I understand rules were broken, but the continued castigation of Bush evades the real problem, which is the exploitation of college athletes.

“The continued punishing of Bush gives the comfortable illusion that the powers that be in college sports are serious about reprimanding college athletes and universities who break the rules. But as long as it remains a broken system, any punishment of Bush is hollow.

“If the NCAA really wanted to prevent situations such as Bush’s, it would hammer these schools harder for their willing ignorance. It would levy serious, six- or seven-figure fines against these schools, hit them with significant scholarship losses — double digits, not single — and suspend the coaches who are overseeing renegade programs.”

Trivia answer

The 1967 Boston Red Sox. Carl Yastremski won the Triple Crown (and MVP) and Jim Longborg won the AL Cy Young.

Patrick Saunders: 303-954-1720 or psaunders@denverpost.com