MIAMI — Elly De La Cruz already has a plethora of feats underneath his belt. He added to his rising stack of accomplishments on Monday evening.
After going hitless towards the Giants over the weekend, De La Cruz recorded 4 extra-base hits in a recreation for the primary time in his profession, crushing a pair of homers to bookend two doubles within the Reds’ 10-3 series-opening win at loanDepot park.
De La Cruz grew to become simply the second Reds participant (since a minimum of 1901) to have two doubles and two dwelling runs in a single recreation. The opposite participant? Paul O’Neill, who achieved the feat on Might 11, 1991 — 10 years and eight months earlier than De La Cruz was born.
Cincinnati’s onslaught began when De La Cruz crushed a two-run homer within the first inning to set the tone. In his subsequent at-bat, De La Cruz jetted across the bases, making the most of a pair of errors from the Marlins to show a measly grounder (which went simply 4 toes) into three bases.
He then doubled within the fourth and sixth innings earlier than crushing a solo homer — his twentieth of the season — within the eighth inning to achieve 20 homers and 50 stolen bases.
