Kyle Tucker of the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball is the younger brother of Preston Tucker, who played for the KIA Tigers. Tucker’s multiple home runs have made him the major league’s all-time home run leader.
Tucker hit two home runs against the Los Angeles Angels on April 22 at Minute Maid Park in Houston. Tucker, who started in right field, went 2-for-4 with a double, a home run, a walk, two RBIs and three runs scored.
In the first inning, Tucker crushed a 94-mph sinker from starter Griffin Canning for a solo home run over the left-field fence. It was a two-run shot that cut the lead to 2-1. Season No. 16.
Pulled a sinker (96.4 mph) on a two-pitch, two-strike at-bat against Luis Garcia for a solo home run over the right-field wall in the seventh inning. 토토사이트 Tied the game at 5-5. Home run, 17th of the season. Houston won 6-5 in extra innings, with Tucker scoring the game-winning run off Jeremy Peña in the bottom of the 10th.
Tucker now has 17 homers in 22 games, passing Baltimore’s Gunner Henderson (16) for the major league lead. He has four more than Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers, 13).
Through 22 games
Tucker is batting 22-for-48 with 17 home runs, 36 RBIs, 36 runs scored, nine doubles, a .425 slugging percentage, a .649 on-base percentage, and a 1.074 OPS. His OPS ranks second in the majors, just behind Ohtani (1.080 OPS).
Kyle has 17 home runs in 49 games for Houston this season, tied for the most in franchise history. Morgan Ensberg in 2006 and George Springer in 2019 had 17 homers in 49 games.
Tucker has been on a hot streak over his last nine games, slashing .400/.550/.933 with four home runs and eight RBIs. Houston has won 10 of its last 13 games to rebound from an early-season slump.
Houston manager Joe Espada said, “Every time Tucker comes to the plate, we expect him to do something great. 메이저사이트 He’s doing things that only a handful of players can do. He’s definitely one of the best players in the league, and he’s really lifting us right now.”
When Tucker hit the tying home run in the bottom of the seventh inning and went out to the outfield to field in the top of the eighth, the right-field bleachers at Minute Maid Park began to erupt with “MVP” chants from the fans.
After the game
Tucker said, “It was awesome. We have really good fans, and they’re supporting us and doing a good job. It was a really cool moment,” he said, ‘but it’s still early and we have a long way to go,’ referring to the MVP.
But the fans’ MVP hopes are not a pipe dream. MLB.com released the results of a 43-member panel’s mock MVP voting on Feb. 22. Tucker was picked second in the American League MVP voting. Juan Soto of the New York Yankees was the top vote-getter with 28 first-place votes. Kyle was picked second with six first-place votes.
Tucker was selected by Houston with the fifth overall pick in the first round of the 2015 draft. Tucker made his major league debut in 2018 and fulfilled his potential by winning the starting outfield job in 2021. In 140 games, he batted .506 (149-for-506) with 30 home runs, 92 RBI, 83 runs scored, 14 doubles, and a .916 OPS.
In 2022, he hit 30 home runs with 107 RBI and an .808 OPS in 150 games for the second straight year. Last year, he hit 29 homers, 사설 토토사이트 112 RBIs and an .886 OPS in 157 games, falling one home run shy of his third straight 30-homer season. This season, he is on a career-high pace with 17 homers in 49 games.