 |
|
 |
||||||||||
 |
|
Trevor Story slugs three homers in a Sox comeback win |
ON THIS DATE (May 19, 2022) ... With each forceful cut Trevor Story unleashed en route to a monster performance at Fenway Park, he distanced himself from the difficult slump he endured in his first few weeks with the Red Sox. As part of a 4-for-4 night that included five runs, seven RBIs and one stolen base, Story belted three homers at an aggregate distance of 1,163 feet.As the third homer left his bat, Story pirouetted in the batter’s box before joyfully trotting around the bases. The power-packed performance led the Red Sox to a 12-6 victory over the Mariners in the opener of a four-game series. On the two-week anniversary of getting booed at Fenway Park after striking out four times in one afternoon against the brilliant offerings of Shohei Ohtani, Story soaked in the roars from a crowd of 29,783. And they got louder each time he went deep. Things started when Eugenio Suárez hit a fly ball out to left field that was just past the glove of Alex Verdugo, falling in for a leadoff double in the second inning. After a strikeout, Hill gave up a single before facing Dylan Moore. Moore took Hill’s fastball and put it into the Monster Seats for a three-run shot, and Seattle got on the board first with a 3-0 lead. Hill followed that up with the second out of the inning, but Seattle continued to push from there. Adam Frazier drew a two-out walk to keep the inning alive before Ty France attacked the first pitch and lined a double into the right field corner. Jackie Bradley Jr. struggled to cut it off, bobbling it on a sliding attempt, which made it fairly simple for Frazier to come around and make it a 4-0 game. A Julio Rodríguez base hit then put runners on the corners, but fortunately Rich Hill was able to induce a pop up from Jesse Winker, ending both the inning and his outing. Verdugo started the Sox half of the second, going the other way against the shift and reaching on an infield single, putting a runner on for Trevor Story. He sent a middle-middle fastball just up and into the Monster Seats for a two-run shot, cutting the deficit in half. After Tanner Houck came on for a perfect third, it was J.D. Martinez this time leading things off with a base hit. Different leadoff man getting on, but same guy producing the big swing. Story came up again with a runner on base and hit his second two-run homer of the day, this one a bit more emphatically for a no-doubt shot to tie the game at four runs apiece. So it was still a 4-4 game head into the bottom of the sixth, with Kirby still on the mound. He’d throw just one pitch — Seattle tried to take him out to start the inning, but as he was already warming up he had to stay in the game — and it was a double for Verdugo. That brought Story back to the plate, and once again he delivered. It wasn’t a home run this time, but rather a line drive up the middle for a base hit. The young Julio Rodríguez then got a little overaggressive, trying to cut down Verdugo at third after the latter had to hold up in case the line drive was caught. It was a poor decision and it backfired, with the ball getting by the bag and allowing Verdugo to come home and make it a 5-4 game with Story now in scoring position. The bottom of the lineup looked as though they were poised to waste the chance, but Jackie Bradley Jr. made sure that wasn’t the case. He worked an impressive 10-pitch at bat, finishing it off with a double going the other way off the Monster, bringing home Story and extending the lead to two. The Red Sox then, once again, broke things open, and it was Story again. With two men on, in the eighth inning, he smashed a three-run shot, his third homer of the game. |
|
|
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
