This is one we’ll remember as a Vladdy Game.
Guerrero Jr. smashed three homers, two off of Gerrit Cole, as the Blue Jays beat the Yankees in The Bronx by a score of 6-4.
Things worth mentioning…
The first Vladdy homer came in the first inning and it just scraped over the wall in centre field, the second came in the third inning and he managed to hit one of Cole’s fastballs that was in on his hands 427 feet to left field, and the third one came in the eighth inning off of Jonathan Loisaga and it looked like the ball was hit into space. Amazingly, two of the three homers came after Vladdy had his hand stepped on by Aaron Hicks as he ran out a ground ball past first base. Vladdy was gushing blood out of his hand, taped it up, and took that Cole fastball on the hands into the seats. Absolutely fucking nails.
Gerrit Cole has thrown 702 pitches in his MLB career at 95+ in & off the plate to righties.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is the first hitter to ever hit a HR off one of those pitches. #BlueJays #NextLevel #Yankees pic.twitter.com/95YC27tLWK
— Chris Black (@DownToBlack) April 14, 2022
lol Vladdy hit this 427 feet pic.twitter.com/GZef4HU0y1
— Andrew Mearns (@MearnsPSA) April 14, 2022
Vladdy Jr. has hit 1,286 feet of home runs tonight, which is approximately a quarter of a mile.
— Molls (@mollyburkhardt) April 14, …
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Author: Cam Lewis / Blue Jays Nation