MLB: Call for the ball! Cubs Utility hits its first HR in four years

Veteran Andrew Romine today Friday connected his first home run since 2017. This afternoon, Craig Kimbrel returned to Wrigley Field for the first time in a Chicago White Sox uniform, and although his former teammates from the Puppies wanting to see him triumph, they still gave Kimbrel a reminder of the team he came from, in an 8-6 loss to the White Sock club.

Kimbrel was asked to hold a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the eighth, with Matt Duffy at the plate. On a 2-1 fastball, Duffy singled to left field. Then Ian Happ was retired by Kimbrel to get a 1 out with a fly to left field. Before continuing with the chronicle, let’s see Romine’s home run:

The next two hitters were new faces for Kimbrel: Frank Schwindel (called up from Triple-A Iowa on July 30) and Greg Diechmann (making his major league debut). Schwindel found the outfield turf, hitting a single to center field before Diechmann fell short on a popup.

That brought up Andrew Romine, the 35-year-old shortstop who just made his season debut on Saturday. Romine worked a full count and then, having gone homeless in the majors since 2017, hit a three-run homer from Kimbrel into the center-right stands to tie the game.

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The howitzer traveled 365 feet projected by Statcast, had a muzzle velocity of 94.1 mph and would have been a home run in 10 of 30 major league stadiums, and yet the odds were in favor of the Cubs with their former closer on the mound. . A single from Venezuelan Robinson Chirinos a batter later, and Kimbrel was out of the game.

Rafael Martinez

I am fond of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover major events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), signings of important players. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as a fan. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but I carry baseball in my veins. Bachelor of Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I came to El Debate as a journalist reporter and it was almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to the radio providing my services in Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and within days, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.

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