PHOENIX -- Another season. Another team. Another batting title for Luis Arraez.

It’s not quite official yet. The Braves and Mets will finish the 2024 regular season with a doubleheader on Monday. But Arraez’s sixth-inning double on Sunday afternoon in the Padres' 11-2 loss to the D-backs just about locked it up.

Arraez went 1-for-3 in the Padres’ regular-season finale at Chase Field to finish with a .314 average -- a number well out of reach of his closest pursuers, the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the Braves’ Marcell Ozuna. Once official, Arraez's batting title will deny Ohtani, the National League leader in home runs and RBIs, the NL Triple Crown.

Arraez finished with precisely 200 hits in 637 at-bats, and is set to become the first player in MLB history to win a batting title with three different teams. And he'll have done it in three consecutive seasons, too.

After winning the batting crown with the Twins in 2022, then the Marlins in ‘23, Arraez is set to become the first Padre to win a batting title since Tony Gwynn in 1997. (Fittingly, the NL batting champion now receives the Tony Gwynn Award.)

The Padres, who used Arraez’s arrival to spark a run to the postseason, have no intention of letting him make it four teams in four years in 2025.

San Diego landed Arraez in early May and stationed him atop their potent lineup -- a much-needed lefty-hitting on-base threat. Arraez was named to the All-Star team, though he wouldn’t play in the Midsummer Classic, as he dealt with a left thumb injury. He also recently dealt with a balky left knee. Through it all, Arraez just kept hitting.

“It’s bigger,” Arraez said. “Because I’ve fought a lot this year with my body.”

Arraez racked up 159 of his 200 hits this season with the Padres. That’s the second highest total for a player who was acquired by a team in-season, behind only Frank Taveras’ 167 hits after moving from the Pirates to the Mets in 1979.