The Yankees’ lefty bats are feasting on the short porch in right field at Yankee Stadium this week.
Just days after Joey Gallo lifted a towering 331-foot three-run home run that proved to be the game winner against the Mariners on Thursday, Rougned Odor needed even less to go deep in the Bronx on Saturday afternoon.
Trailing 4-1 in the bottom of the sixth, Odor dropped down to one knee to lift a low, and I mean LOW, 83 mph slider just over the wall in right field, a 328-foot homer to cut the deficit to 4-3.
The long ball would have been a home run in just one other MLB ballpark, being Fenway Park. It also had a hit probability of three percent, with the expected batting average on that type of batted ball being just 0.30.
Odor was out in front of the breaking ball and basically swung one-handed, and while the exit velocity was just 89 mph, it was enough to get it just over the wall down the right field line, and counts as a home run all the same.
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