Mark Trumbo became the first Orioles player to hit two home runs in one inning in an 11-5 rout of the Texas Rangers Friday night. Since fun is the operative word for this baseball season, Trumbo goes with it:
After becoming the first player in Orioles history to homer twice in one inning as part of a nine-run, four-homer seventh inning in Friday’s 11-5 win over the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Park, Trumbo conceded that the reality is better than anything the prognostications could provide.
“There’s no doubt. This is where the fun is. The speculation — the preseason — is one thing,” Trumbo said. “But to go and actually see it with your own eyes, in season, this was a really, really fun game for us.”
They kept coming back to that word: fun. Nolan Reimold, whose solo home run made it 6-5 in that seventh inning, used it, too. Second baseman Jonathan Schoop, whose two-run home run in the seventh tied the game before Reimold’s blast, said it was “special.”
“We scored nine runs in one inning, and we came back,” Schoop said. “That’s why we battle and play the whole nine innings. The first couple of innings, [Rangers starter Martin Perez] was pitching really good. Then after that, we got at him.”
The Orioles have hit 20 home runs in 10 games. As I’ve mentioned before, the Orioles offense this year is not one dimensional. They are hitting for average and getting on base as well. Manny Machado hit in all ten games and is batting .405. So far, it’s a much more balanced offense.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/1QdPF9V
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