Recorded seven multi-homer games on the season: April 20 at Baltimore, April 26 vs. Kansas City, August 6 vs. Atlanta and September 19 vs. Kansas City Homered in four straight games June , one game short of his career-long homer streak and one short of tying the club record Hit 20th home run July 22 vs.
Recorded another three-homer game nine days later August 3 vs. Placed on day Injured List August 9 with left wrist strain, an injury suffered during missed swing August 8 vs. Cleveland; reinstated August Went 4-for-5 with three doubles and one home run August 20 vs. Hit 35th home run September 3 at Boston, marking his sixth straight season with plus Had seventh multi-homer game of season September 19 vs.
Kansas City, while collecting five RBI Hit 39th home run September 20 vs. Hit 40th home run of season and th of career September 22 vs. Kansas City, off Gabe Speier Finished the season with 41 home runs and for his career, good for 57th in Major League Baseball history Hit 25 home runs after the All-Star break, the fourth-most post-ASG homers in Twins history, behind Killebrew 30 in and 28 in '63 and Dozier 28 in Finished with a 1.
Finished the year ranked second in slugging. Played in three games in ALDS vs. New York-AL, going 2-for Pohlad Community Service Award Spent fourth season with Seattle Placed on day disabled list with a sprained right ankle April 3 retroactive to April 1 ; reinstated April Recorded his 1,th career hit, an RBI-single, on June 16 vs. Hit 20th home run of the season on June 22 vs. Boston, becoming the only player with at least 20 home runs in each of the last 10 seasons, dating back to Earned his sixth career All-Star selection, his fifth in the last six seasons also: , , , and Recorded 1,th career RBI with a solo home run on September 12 vs.
San Diego Hit his 35th home run of the season on September 12 vs. San Diego, becoming only player in baseball to reach the home run plateau in each of the last five seasons since and the fifth player in Major League history with at least five seasons of or-more home runs at age or older, joining Barry Bonds 6 , Rafael Palmeiro 6 , Henry Aaron 5 and Babe Ruth Hit 21 home runs at Safeco Field, tied with Richie Sexson in for most home runs at Safeco Field in a single season Hit by a pitch 14 times, the fourth-most in the AL The Totals- Hit.
Milestone Home Run- Belted his th career home run on July 7 vs. Oakland…became the 7th player to hit his th career home run with the Mariners Keeping it Recorded his th home run as a Mariner on June 4 vs. Heating Up- From April 22 - May 25, hit. Streaking- Hit safely in 15 consecutive games, April 19 - May 6, batting.
Cruz has gone just 1-for with a walk and five strikeouts across his last four appearances, and he'll be out of the lineup for the fourth time in the last six games. Austin Meadows will serve as the designated hitter while Manuel Margot starts in right field.
The veteran slugger will get a rest after going 1-for-6 with a walk during the past two games. Cruz missed two games last week with a forearm injury, so it isn't at all surprising that the Rays are looking to keep the year-old fresh as Tampa Bay prepares for its postseason run. Austin Meadows will serve as the DH on Tuesday. Cruz forearm started at designated hitter in a loss to the Tigers on Sunday and went 0-for-2 with a walk.
After sitting out the last two games with forearm soreness stemming from being plunked by a pitch Thursday against the Tigers, Cruz returned for the series finale and logged three plate appearances before being pinch run for by Kevin Kiermaier illness.
Cruz remains mired in a brief but undeniable funk, as he's now hit. Cruz sat out the past two games after exiting Thursday's contest due to a hit-by-pitch, but he'll rejoin the lineup for Sunday's series finale. The veteran slugger is 1-for in his last four contests and will attempt to get back on track against Detroit righty Wily Peralta.
Cruz forearm remains on the bench Saturday against the Tigers. Cruz exited Thursday's series opener after getting hit in the arm by a pitch. He didn't appear in Friday's contest, though manager Kevin Cash said he was available off the bench. He'll presumably be available again in a similar capacity Saturday, but the Rays evidently feel no rush to get him back in the lineup given their 8.
Jordan Luplow will be the designated hitter Saturday. Cruz was hit by a pitch on the forearm Thursday and isn't in the lineup Friday, though manager Kevin Cash previously indicated the slugger will be "fully available" off the bench.
The year-old also started the previous 17 games, so it's a good time for a day off for the veteran regardless of the injury.
Cruz exited Thursday's game after being hit by a pitch in his arm. He was diagnosed with a contusion after X- rays came back negative, alleviating concerns that he suffered a major injury. Cash did note that Cruz will likely get a day off Friday, but he should return for the final two games of the team's weekend set against Detroit.
On one side, a bed for the parents. On the other, a bed for Cruz and a second for his older and younger sisters to share. His mother paid someone to go to the river to collect water for the tank in their house. That became their bathwater, their dishwashing water, their cooking water. Cruz sold plantains from his grandfather's farm, or went to the park to clean shoes, or worked in his uncle's mechanic shop to earn extra money.
His mother, like his father, was a teacher, and two teachers' salaries added up to not enough. The Cruzes talk about those hardships in a way that's almost romantic now, their struggle gauzy and nostalgic, the way struggle is so often made to feel once it's in the past, at a safe remove.
We grew up really happy there. But the truth too, at once plain and inescapable, was that they had little, and lived in a town that had less. Their lives were hard, so Cruz has spent the better part of a decade trying to unspool that tangle of hardness. He's trying to make things easier. So he adds solar panels to the roof of his own home and his parents' home. And he upgraded parts of his grandmother's home in the land directly behind his own house.
And he brings a firetruck to Las Matas, then doesn't stop there, not hardly, for he also helps procure an ambulance, because the town didn't have one of those either.
If someone was critically hurt, sick or dying in Las Matas de Santa Cruz, there was a sprint to find a person with a car. Then there was a scramble to see whether anyone could pay for gas.
Then there was the race to Santiago and the hospital there, 60 miles and an hour and a half away. But there was no ambulance -- until Cruz intervened.
When Cruz is back in his hometown now, his neighbors will stop him on the street to say their loved ones' names out loud.
They're offering an accounting -- of the lives his ambulance has prolonged. That ledger grew to include Cruz's own grandmother. Four years ago, she suffered a stroke and fell, and the ambulance her grandchild had brought to Las Matas de Santa Cruz rushed her to the hospital in Santiago.
She didn't survive the trauma -- she died two days later in the hospital -- but she was at least afforded the chance to survive. Her death gave Cruz a release, he says, permission to take in the full sweep of all his other neighbors, those aunts and uncles, those mothers and fathers, whom he had helped keep alive.
But you never really think, 'OK, I'm going to save people doing this,'" he says. Since the day he set foot in the States to play minor league ball, since or , he estimates, he has returned to the Dominican after the season with batting gloves and baseballs, old shoes and worn gear. His teammates threw them out, garbage-heap-bound, and he salvaged them, bringing them back to Las Matas for the young ballplayers back home. In his own youth, Cruz and his friends made homemade baseballs from old socks.
They'd fill one sock with another until it resembled the shape, if not the feel, of a baseball, and his friends would holler at him when Cruz hit another home run, losing yet one more homemade baseball concoction in the distance. He knows the currency of real baseballs, even if they're second hand, even if they're battered. He corralled the firetruck and ambulance, and then, as his public clout grew in scope and weight -- beelining for the career home runs club comes with a handy megaphone -- corralled more.
He made his way from the Rangers to the Orioles to the Mariners, and in Seattle, he marshaled so much donated gear from the local fire station Helmets! He spearheaded the building of a new police station -- acquiring the property, helping to fund the construction costs -- to replace the old plywood shack.
In , he hosted a wellness bonanza where, according to Joseph Hache, who serves on the board of Cruz's foundation, Boomstick23, 1, locals received medical care, from mammograms to optometry consultations, over a period of five days. This past year, patients received assistance, with an emphasis on dental care -- 69 dentures fitted, 19 root canals and fillings -- in a geyser of goodwill. It's enough to make people turn into blubbering gushfests, which might be embarrassing if not for the sheer sincerity.
Segura, who plays shortstop for the Phillies and hails from the Dominican too, has made the trip across the country, trekking from Santo Domingo to Las Matas, in each of the past three Januarys. That's when Cruz plays host to MLB friends and teammates who convene to help coach kids on how to do things like point your fingers downward when fielding a ground ball.
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