Detroit — It was only 40 plate appearances, so it wasn’t like it was starting to weigh on Detroit Tigers rookie Christin Stewart. But this is a guy who hit 94 home runs in four minor-league seasons and some of his teammates were starting to wonder, jokingly, if all that power was a myth.
“Yeah, I wasn’t thinking about it, but it was getting brought up in the clubhouse,” Stewart said Thursday. “I am just glad I got that first one out of the way.”
First two, actually.
Stewart homered in his first two at-bats and drove in six runs, helping the Tigers to an 11-8 win over the Kansas City Royals, ending a three-game losing streak.