The Cuban gardenerLourdes Gurriel Jr. has been a key piece in the beginning of the actions of theMajor League Baseball, with his teamArizona Diamondbacks, by achieving a record of a home run in each of the three games played, to date, by their team.
In the game held this Saturday against the Colorado Rockies, despite the defeat,“Yunito” Gurriel became the first player in the history of the D-backs franchise to hit a home run in the first three games of the season.
Previously, his hits had contributed to Las Serpientes' victories in their first two games of this campaign, hitting a home run in the first inning of each game.
This last homer, according to MLB statistics,It had an exit velocity of 103.6 miles per hour (mph) and went a distance of 414 feet.
The independent journalist Francys Romero notedthis feat as the first for a Cuban with home runs on consecutive days in the first three games of an MLB season.
The communicator predicts that Gurriel Jr. will join the list of the few players in MLB history who have hit HRs in each of the first 4 games of a season. The six names are: Willie Mays (1971), Mark McGwire (1998), Nelson Cruz (2011), Chris Davis (2013), Trevor Story (2016), and Christian Yelich (2019).
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The Arizona starter,Tommy Henry, he told the digital siteMLB which is “pretty impressive,” stating that “it's fun to watch. The electricity really shows on the field every day here in the weight room, it's just fun to see that turn into success on the field and start off on fire. That motivates everyone and we also enjoy seeing him smile and play with this electricity.”
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