“He obviously went down to Triple-A and tore it up to earn the opportunity,” Aaron Boone said. The outfielder/first baseman came into this season with 328 games of major league experience with Tampa Bay, Cleveland and Seattle, but he didn’t suit up for the Yankees until April 29 of this year after spending all of 2022 in the minor leagues with New York and Cincinnati. “Just trying to put the barrel on the ball and let good things happen from there.”īauers began the season at Triple-A, where the 27-year-old crushed nine home runs over 21 games. “As ironic as it sounds, just not trying to hit for power,” Bauers said when asked what clicked after the game.
He admired both shots to right field, which propelled the Yankees to a 6-3, series-tying victory. The second landed 409 feet away and left Bauers’ bat at 109.2 mph. The first blast came in the second inning and traveled 414 feet at 107.6 miles per hour. With friends and family in attendance - including his parents, wife and in-laws - Bauers recorded the first multi-homer game of his career with a pair of two-run bombs off Los Angeles starter Michael Grove.
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