WATCH: Boston Red Sox Star Rafael Devers Blasts Home Run on to Eutaw Street
Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers remains extremely a good hitter, and a lethal hitter at Camden Yards in Baltimore.
In the top of the third inning on Monday night, Devers pummeled a Dean Kremer cutter out to right field, landing on Eutaw Street. The ball had an exit velocity of 115 mph. It was his ninth home run of the season and gave the Sox a 4-0 lead at the time. You can watch the home run below.
In hitting the ball out on Eutaw Street, Devers joined some rare company, as Ian Browne of MLB.com points out in a tweet.
"Devers homer landed on Eutaw Street. It is the 118th Eutaw Street HR in history, 63rd by an opponent. Seventh by a Red Sox hitter. Ortiz had the other six, just kidding."
OK, so the part about David Ortiz was a joke but still, that's a rare feat. Camden Yards has been open since 1992, and only 63 opposing homers have been hit there in 30 years worth of games.
Devers has torched Orioles pitching in that building for the entirety of his career as Gabrielle Starr of the Boston Herald points out:
"148 regular season homers, 11 @ Camden. He's homered no more than 9 times at any other ballpark."
The Red Sox entered play on Monday at 12-11 overall and Devers is off to another excellent start. He's got the nine homers and 23 RBIs, to go along with a .261 batting average and a .933 OPS.
The Red Sox also got a solo home run from Tristan Casas and an RBI single from Alex Verdugo. Adam Frazier had an RBI single for Baltimore to make it 4-1 Red Sox at the time of this posting -- in the bottom of the third inning.
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