Garver led off the game with a towering
home run to left field, and after the Tigers answered with an unearned run, Kepler put the Twins up 2-1 with his 36th homer of the year.
Despite that conservatism, team
home run records are poised to fall.
A member of the tribe is guaranteed to make the final four of the
Home Run Derby, and the winner of their matchup can plausibly claim to be the greatest Jewish slugger of all time.
Let's call this measure HRKAB, which you're free to pronounce as either "her cab" or "
home run cab." The lower the number, the better, since a smaller AB/HR figure means more frequent
home runs and a higher AB/K figure means the hitter strikes out less frequently.
In the bottom of the first inning, Park Kun-woo belted a solo
home run off the Dinos' starter Lee Jae-hak.
With his first swing, Giancarlo Stanton crushed his 43rd
home run of the season to break the Marlins' single-season record held since 1996 by Gary Sheffield.
In baseball, a
home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play, without the benefit of a fielding error.
That's not just his first
home run since coming to the United States.