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Ba-da-BOOM ba-da-BING, Kyle Seager hits five homers in one weekend. His OPS+ is 128, rollin-on-the-florrr-laffin and he is the #6 third baseman in all of baseball by WAR.
It reminds you of 1993, when Scott Erickson lost 19 games, had a 5.19 ERA, "helped" the Twins to 91 losses ... and then went in and fought like a rabid weasel for a huge raise in arbitration. Shellshocked, the Twins' GM staggered out of the arb hearing mumbling, "Some of our guys had a lot better year than I remember them having."
But guess what. Seager's five HR's came in:
So if you want to get your stats in one weekend, that single-handedly grabs an 8-game losing streak by the nape of the neck and turns it into a winning streak, then great.
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A Tale of Five Shots, Dept.
On Wednesday, Jarred Corsart was EXTREMELY skeptical that Kyle Seager could get on top of good velocity. He started him with a 77-MPH yakker for a strike, and then came after him with high cheese.
Corsart threw him eight (8) fastballs that clocked 92-94 MPH. One of them was a perfect jam pitch; the other seven were at the top of the zone. In fact, pitch #11 in the image below was one baseball's width above the strike zone.
The shot came in the 7th inning and broke up a shutout. Score 3-2. The Astros' pitchers made lame excuses later, but the fact is that Corsart didn't think Seager could turn around a 94-MPH fastball letter high.
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Then in the 9th, Josh Fields brought his best cheese, a 95-mph fastball that was up-and-in:
ull,"attributes":{"height":112,"width":160,"class":"media-element file-default"}}]]na fragile, so maybe they'll shake their heads, sit up in bed and blink away the Night Terror of the April in which they couldn't hit an 89-MPH fastball to save their professional lives.
If so, it's kewl that Kyle Seager was the one to first wake up and mop the cold sweat off his forehead.
BABVA,
Dr D
Unless my eyes deceive me there's nothing purple in that batted ball chart. No bloopers. Just solid contact.
When you square it up and hit it hard, good things can happen.
But why does the chart only show two home runs? Did a couple of them go exactly the same place, so there's no discernible difference on the chart?
We downloaded the scatter chart fresh, so no idea why there are only 2 dots. Very possible, considering it's Seager, that the 5 homers overlap.
:daps: