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Lorenzo Cain breaks out of slump in a big way
- Updated: May 11, 2016
12:51 AM ET
Remember Lorenzo Cain? Great defensive outfielder, added some power to his game in 2015 and finished third in the American League MVP voting? He entered Tuesday’s game hitting a meager .256/.310/.316, with just one double and two home runs in 30 games. His strikeout rate had increased from 16 percent last season to 26 percent. He was one of the best all-around players in the game in 2015 and decidedly not in the first month of 2016.
The Kansas City Royals can only hope Tuesday’s three-homer game will jump-start Cain’s season — because given the current start of the starting rotation, as evidenced in the 10-7 loss to the Yankees that featured another poor Kris Medlen start, the offense is going to need to score a lot more runs.
Cain struck out in his first at-bat and then homered off a Masahiro Tanaka 1-0 fastball in the third, taking advantage of the short porch in right field. In the fifth inning he crushed a first-pitch slider for a 442-foot blast. In the eighth, he homered off an Andrew Miller slider, again going to the opposite field. He came up again in the ninth with a chance to join the exclusive four-homer club and battled Aroldis Chapman, fouling off three pitches with two strikes, before finally popping out to second base.
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