SAN DIEGO – Legend of Randy Arozarena now includes home statement for Game 7
SAN DIEGO – Legend of Randy Arozarena now includes Game 7 home run
The Rays left fielder was the star of the 2020 playoffs, and he remained searing hot on Saturday night, pitching his seventh homerun of the playoffs in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series to set a MLB Rookie Record
Arozarena got a fastball in the thigh from Astros starter Lance McCullers Jr with a front row runner in the first run, and he was right in sending him a 416-foot thrown by Statcast in Petco Park beach
It was the ALCS’s fourth Arozarena homeroom, and perhaps its most important.With just one hit, Tampa Bay had a 2-0 lead It was a categorical opening for a shocked club after three consecutive defeats
At this point, nothing of Arozarena should be taken as surprising Following his home run, he was hitting 375 with 11 more playoff hits, a Rays playoff record in one season. His 21 hits were slightly less than Derek Jeter’s performance in 1996 for the most part by a rookie in playoff history
Beyond rookie records, Arozarena looks at some serious history if he makes it to the Tour again He is just short of the playoff record in a single season of eight home runs, held by Barry Bonds in 2002, Carlos Beltrán in 2004 and Nelson Cruz in 2011
Arozarena is also two homers short of the Rays’ all-time playoff record held by Evan Longoria In 2008, Longoria hit six playoff homers as a rookie, holding that record until that Arozarena beat him on Saturday
Arozarena entered the playoffs as a little-known rookie outfielder who arrived from St Louis in an off-season trade He missed the first month of the regular season on the COVID-19 injured roster He finished strong, but few could have predicted this kind of October from another world
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World News – United States – Arozarena breaks rookie 7th playoff record HR
