CLEVELAND — Jackson Holliday returned to the massive leagues on Wednesday in Baltimore. The 20-year-old has solidified his standing as an enormous leaguer this weekend in Cleveland.
The breakout of MLB Pipeline’s No. 1 total prospect has been on show in the course of the Orioles’ four-game sequence vs. the Guardians at Progressive Discipline, and it continued on Sunday afternoon, when Holliday swatted the second dwelling run of his 15-game MLB profession. He hit a solo homer off Cleveland starter Gavin Williams in the course of the fourth inning to push Baltimore’s result in 4-2.
The beginning of Holliday’s second stint with the O’s has gone utterly completely different from the primary.
In April, Holliday went 2-for-34 with a pair of singles and 18 strikeouts over 10 video games. With Sunday’s homer, he improved to 6-for-16 with two dwelling runs and 7 RBIs in 5 video games since being recalled from Triple-A Norfolk.
It was his first street dwelling run, as his earlier homer was a Eutaw Avenue grand slam throughout Wednesday’s win over the Blue Jays at Camden Yards.
Holliday recorded consecutive multihit video games on Friday and Saturday, going a mixed 4-for-7 with a double and an RBI throughout the pair of contests. (In the meantime, he set data on the “Golden Tee Golf” arcade sport within the guests’ clubhouse in his free time.)
Sunday’s fourth inning was an ideal instance of simply how potent the O’s younger lineup might be.
After Holliday’s homer, Colton Cowser singled to increase his career-best hitting streak to 17 video games, matching an Orioles rookie report set by Trey Mancini from Sept. 11-29, 2017. Then, Gunnar Henderson pushed Baltimore’s result in 6-2 with a two-run homer — his twenty ninth of the season, however his first since July 14 (previous to the Dwelling Run Derby and All-Star Recreation).
