Triple Crown Hopeful Miguel Cabrera Leads Scramble for Home Run Title

" While a handful of American League teams jockey for playoff berths, five men find themselves in the thick of a race for the AL home run title—but for only one of them would be it a historic achievement.

Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera on Monday night pulled ahead of Josh Hamilton in the home race, by hitting his 44th dinger of 2012. Cabrera also leads the American League with a .329 batting average, and 137 runs batted, putting himself in line to win all three categories for the first Triple Crown since 1967.

But for Cabrera to cement his place in history, he'll have to best not only Hamilton, but three other sluggers. What are his chances of making it? We asked John Avello, Executive Director of Race & Sports at Wynn Las Vegas to handicap the field ahead of Monday's action.

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