Taiwanese-American right fielder Corbin Carroll on Tuesday hit his third home run in two days to tie for the MLB lead with 14 homers.
Carroll on Monday hit two homers for the Arizona Diamondbacks in their 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants to put him with in one of the hit leaders.
Although the Giants got their revenge on Tuesday night, beating Arizona 10-6, Carroll hit a solo home run in the seventh inning to tie him with the Philadelphia Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber and the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge for the most homers so far this year.
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In the previous night’s game, the right fielder connected off a 2-1 pitch from Justin Verlander over the wall in left-center in the third. He went deep again — a 419-foot (128m) shot to center, on a 1-1 pitch leading off the fifth for a 2-0 lead.
That was Carroll’s third multihomer game of the year.
“I think it’s not necessarily like a focus of mine this year in terms of trying to hit home runs,” MLB.com’s Steve Gilbert quoted Carroll as saying. “Just trying to hit a bunch of balls hard on a line, and so that’s kind of where I’ve been judging myself, and I feel like when I’m doing that a bunch, that the homers kind of follow.”
However, the Giants ended their four-game losing streak the next day to even the three-game series, with Christian Koss hitting a grand slam for San Francisco, his first in the majors.
In Los Angeles, rookie Jacob Wilson hit a pair of two-run homers as the Athletics beat the Dodgers 11-1.
Wilson went 4 for 5 and had four RBIs. His 58 hits are second in the majors behind Judge’s 66.
Elsewhere, the Cleveland Guardians shut out the Milwaukee Brewers 2-0, the New York Mets edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1, the Detroit Tigers survived the Boston Red Sox 10-9 in 11 innings, the Chicago Cubs pipped the Miami Marlins 5-4 and the Seattle Mariners outlasted the Yankees 2-1 in 11 innings.
The San Diego Padres rallied to beat the Los Angeles Angels 6-4, the Tampa Bay Rays outplayed the Toronto Blue Jays 11-9, the Texas Rangers defeated the Colorado Rockies 4-1, the Atlanta Braves took down the Washington Nationals 5-2, the Houston Astros defeated the Kansas City Royals 2-1 and the Chicago White Sox scored four runs in the 10th inning to beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-1.
Additional reporting by Reuters
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