Rose told the USA Today at that time, “I’m not trying to take anything away from Ichiro, he’s had a Hall of Fame career, but the next thing you know you’ll be counting his high school hits”.
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Miami starter Andrew Cashner, acquired from San Diego at the trade deadline to bolster the Marlins’ rotation, was knocked around by the Rockies.
Bettis shook off the home run to pitch six innings, giving up three runs on seven hits.
The Marlins outfielder did it Sunday with a triple in the seventh inning against Colorado at Coors Field.
Oberg fielded the one-hopper and dropped the ball as he turned toward second base for a possible forceout. “What he’s done in his career has been an outstanding accomplishment”.
“You put him in the game when we did there’s a little thought that he might get two (at-bats)”, Miami manager Don Mattingly said.
The 42-year-old Suzuki hit a long drive to right field that carried just beyond the reach of leaping Gerardo Parra. According to Statcast, Stanton’s homer flew 504 feet, which would make it the longest home run in Coors Field history. The Marlins’ muscular right fielder and reigning Home Run Derby champion obliterated Chad Bettis’ 88 miles per hour changeup and sent the baseball flying deep into the left-center field seats for a solo homer to give Miami a 3-2 lead.
Stanton, who flew out on a 3-0 pitch in the third, connected in the fifth on an 89 miles per hour changeup from Chad Bettis (10-6), sending a drive into the seats in left-center field for a 3-2 lead. Video, however, shows that Hall of Fame catcher Mike Piazza’s 496-foot homer September 26, 1997, while playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, actually went farther. Baseball is more than a game to him, it is a craft, which he works at tirelessly with intense discipline.
This was the second time Stanton crushed a ball in Denver.
The most recent player to join the 3,000 hit club was Alex Rodriguez with a homer on June 19, 2015.
“He hung in there”, Weiss said.
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The Rockies sent 13 batters to the plate in the inning, which ended with reliever Nefi Ogando striking out Carlos Gonzalez with the bases loaded.
