Is this the new beginning?
Highly touted prospect, fifth overall draft pick in 2015, Kyle Tucker, has been struggling yet again in this, his third partial season in MLB. He came into the game striking out 30% of the time, hitting only .192, and managing a meager .563 OPS. The whispers, “AAAA player”, were growing louder with every plate failure.
In this game he was 1-4 with a strikeout. But what a one it was. With one out, in the bottom of the ninth, in a game tied 2-2, Kyle Tucker hit one almost as high as it was deep, 367 feet, just over the right field fence.