Rafael Devers break the second longest home run drought

ByDavid Mitchell
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The home run in the first match of the double day between Boston and St. Louis was the first Dominican’s flycracks since August last year.

The offensive of Rafael Devers It is beginning to appear little by little, and the long days of the drought of shifts without hits to start the season, they seem withered, after during the first of two meetings between Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinalsthe Dominican will connect his first home run in the 2025 campaign. In any other circumstance, the homemade home run would go unnoticed, however, he broke a drought of home runs that went back to August 2024.

Before the homer of Devers During the lower part of the fifth episode, in front of the launches of Andre Pallantethe designated batter of the Red Sox He had a chain of 29 consecutive games without connecting home run, being the most recent before today, connected on August 25, 2024.

The 29 games without home runs are the second most prolonged drought in the career of Rafael Deverssuffering the first during the end of the 2018 season and the beginning of 2019, when it appeared in 36 games in a row without taking it out of the park, according to information from information from AM850 STATS AND INFO.

Additionally, Devers He connected his first homer of the current campaign in his ninth game, being this longest longest meetings in his career to start a season. It is only surpassed by the nine games in a row that took him to connect a homer in the 2020 season, where his first arrived in his tenth meeting of the campaign cut by COVID-19, as indicated AM850 STATS AND INFO.

Devers and the Red Sox They will seek to continue their good moment from the start of the campaign and achieve their first sweep of 2025, when they play again, in the second hour, against the Cardinalsto complete your double Sunday.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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