Given how Billy Wagner once dominated the ninth inning, it would’ve been poetic if the former Phillies closer got into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in his ninth year on the ballot. Instead, he will have to wait. Again. Adrián Beltré, Joe Mauer, and Todd Helton were elected Tuesday by voting members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, the Hall of Fame announced. Beltré was a landslide choice, picking up 95.1% of the 385 votes; Helton and Mauer received 79.7% and 76.1%, respectively. Wagner, meanwhile, came agonizingly close to the three-quarters’ majority required for electio…
