By Franco Miguel Alvariño
In the “Windy City” duel, held at “Wrigley Field”, the Chicago White Sox defeated the Chicago Cubs 4 × 0. In the confrontation, Jose Abreu He hit a long home run in the eighth inning to put definitive numbers on the board.
After missing his first three chances, the White Sox third bat and first baseman took a turn off Trevor Megill, who allowed a home run by Cesar Hernandez, just before the Cuban visited the batting rectangle.
Abreu, with his slugger lineage, achieved a “Back to back”, phrase used in American baseball slang to mean the event of two consecutive home runs. With the huge hit, “Pito”, reached 21 home runs in 2021 and 219 in his career
As a curious fact, in seven of the eight seasons that he has played at the highest level of baseball in the United States, the Cienfuegos man has broken the 20 home run barrier. Meanwhile, the only year that did not succeed was last, achieving 19, enough to be among the leaders, in a campaign reduced by the presence of Covid-19.
In turn, in the month of August he has hit three homers in six games. In that same number of crashes, he has driven in runs in five games, for a total of six trailers. On the other hand, he extended his hitting streak to five games, two of them multi-hitting.
Meanwhile, Abreu accumulates two undisputed in five at-bats against his closest neighbors. In addition, he scored on a couple of occasions, although the RBI box remained intact. Curiously, his countrymen, before the start of the clash, were one of the three teams that had not driven him races. The rest were the Minnesota Twins and the Pittsburgh Pirates.
“Pito” exhibits 384 visits to the batting rectangle, with 95 undisputed, distributed in 17 doubles, two triples and 21 home runs. In addition, he has driven in 83 runs and stepped on the plate 56 times, for a total of 98 RBIs. Therefore, its offensive frequencies are the following: .247 / .333 / .466 AVE / OBP / SLU.