Somehow, Nelson Cruz has never hit three home runs in a game.
He’s had 25 career multi-homer games, but never more than two bombs in any single game, which seems shocking for the Seattle Mariners’ Boomstick who seems to hit his home runs in bunches.
Cruz had one of the finer games of his career on Friday night in Boston, rocking a three-run home run 465 feet on the first pitch he saw from Steven Wright, a knuckleball, in the first inning. He had another three-run home run in the fourth that traveled “only” 443 feet and left Fenway Park.