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New York Yankees rookie first baseman Ben Rice hit three residence runs on Saturday towards the Boston Purple Sox, meriting a well-deserved curtain name from the Yankee Stadium crowd.
Rice obtained the Yankees going with a leadoff homer off Purple Sox starter Josh Winckowski.
Rice then added a three-run bomb off reliever Chase Anderson the fifth inning for a 10-4 Yankee lead.
Two frames later, Rice smacked one other three-run shot off Anderson to place the Yanks up 14-4.
Rice made his MLB debut on June 18 and has been one of many Yankees’ vivid spots amid the staff’s 4-14 skid, posting a .971 OPS and not too long ago getting the bump as much as leadoff.
Rice is the primary Yankee rookie to ever hit three residence runs in a sport. He is additionally simply the third rookie to hit three homers from the leadoff spot, based on MLB.com’s Sarah Langs:
Rice has understandably been fairly standard amongst Yankee followers.
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The Yankees ended up profitable 14-4 and moved to 55-36 and two-and-a-half video games behind the Baltimore Orioles for first within the American League East.
New York has nonetheless endured a brutal month, however the spark Rice has supplied might very properly lead this staff out of the doldrums and again to the profitable methods the staff skilled earlier this yr.