Cleveland Guardians' Jose Ramirez Hits Three HR, Joins Elite Club in Team History on Thursday
At the time of this posting, the Cleveland Guardians lead the Boston Red Sox, 8-2, in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Also at the time of this posting, Guardians star Jose Ramirez has hit three home runs and driven in four runs. There's still time to add to it...
Ramirez has already accomplished a few impressive feats in this game as we stand right now.
First off, by hitting his second home run, Ramirez hit his 200th career home run. Also, by having a multi-home run game, Ramirez joined a special club in team history.
Sarah Langs of MLB.com has more on Twitter:
that’s José Ramírez’s 21st career multi-HR game, tying Joe Carter for 5th-most in Cleveland history, behind only:
Albert Belle: 26
Jim Thome: 26
Hal Trosky: 25
Manny Ramírez: 22
That's also elite company to join as well for Ramirez. Langs also pointed out that the third home run gave Ramirez the first three home-run game of his career. It was also the first three-home run game for the Guardians since 2018 (Edwin Encarnacion).
Ramirez struck out in his fourth at-bat, but seems likely to get another at-bat in this game.
For the season, Ramirez is now hitting .270 with nine homers, 35 RBI and five stolen bases. One of the best players of the last decade, Ramirez is a four-time All-Star selection and a four-time Silver Slugger winner.
If the Guardians hold onto win, they'll take the series against the Red Sox and move to 29-33. They'll be 1.5 games out of first place.
A loss would drop the Red Sox to 31-32 overall.
