Julien gets first MLB hit, HR — both in 9-run first
NEW YORK – The Twins count on huge issues from high prospect Edouard Julien, who may very well be a fixture on the high of their lineup for years to come back.
But by no means of their wildest goals might they’ve anticipated one thing like this.
Julien, the No. 95 prospect in baseball, assumed the Twins’ leadoff function for the very first time in entrance of greater than 20 family and friends members at Yankee Stadium — and checked off not one, however two milestones within the first inning, amassing each his first profession hit and his first profession homer as a part of a nine-run body that additionally featured back-to-back-to-back Minnesota blasts.
Julien is the fourth hitter since 1974 to gather his first profession hit and first profession house run in the identical inning, per OptaStats. The final participant to perform that feat had been Aramis Garcia, who did so for the Giants in 2018.
Perhaps it was Julien’s affect from the highest spot. Perhaps it was having each the banged-up Carlos Correa and Byron Buxton again within the lineup. Perhaps it was the Twins merely unleashing a half-decade of pent-up frustration right here, contemplating their 2-16 report at Yankee Stadium since 2017.
The finish end result: The highest-scoring body in membership historical past towards the Yankees.
If this served as a preview of what a possible long-term future might appear to be in Minnesota with Julien, Correa and Buxton stacked atop the lineup, it couldn’t have gone significantly better for the Twins. Julien acquired one milestone out of the way in which rapidly by roping a 104.4 mph liner off the right-field wall for a single, adopted by a Correa infield single and a Buxton stroll.
Here’s what adopted: Sac fly, double, double, groundout, double. It was already 5-0 at that time — however Julien and the Twins have been removed from accomplished.
Michael A. Taylor smashed a two-run blast to straightaway heart for his second homer of the season, bringing Julien again to the plate. The Twins’ No. 4 prospect took the chance to point out off his energy to all fields, mashing a 351-foot fly ball to left that dropped into the primary row of the bleachers.
At that time, a shellshocked Yankee Stadium crowd barely had time to greet Correa with a refrain of boos earlier than he, too, bashed a homer to right-center, finishing the nine-run body with the Twins’ third consecutive blast. The final time the Twins hit back-to-back-to-back homers had additionally been towards the Yankees, when Luis Arraez, Buxton and Correa opened a sport with three blasts off Gerrit Cole at Target Field final June 9.
