JJ Wetherholt Smashes Two HRs Off Lefties in Wild Cardinals Win
Wetherholt, 23, notched the first multi-homer game of his young MLB career and he added the defensive play of the night as the Cardinals rallied past the Guardians in 10 innings.
Cardinals’ manager Oli Marmol discusses his team’s seventh comeback win of the season and the talent of rookie JJ Wetherholt, who homered twice on Tuesday night. ST. LOUIS – Ready to hit – even against a couple of hard-throwing left-handed pitchers – Cardinals’ standout rookie JJ Wetherholt did damage on two first pitches with two totally different swings on Tuesday night.
One of his two homers from the Cardinals’ wild 6-5 win over the Guardians in 10 innings already has earned a spot in his memory bank as the favorite of his rookie season – even when stacked against the long ball he smacked on Opening Day and felt Busch Stadium throb with raw emotion for the first time. Wetherholt, 23, homered twice in a game for the first time in his MLB career – the third-inning solo shot being a dead-pull swing hit over the right-center wall and the two-run long ball in the eighth being drilled to the opposite field. Both came off lefties and both came off the first pitch of his at bats, but clearly Wetherholt had a distinct favorite on the biggest night of his young MLB career.
“Lefties sometimes can clean up my direction because I’m trying to stay inside the ball, and I was really happy that I went the other way because I’ve really not (done that) since being here,” Wetherholt said. “(Driving balls to the opposite field) is something for me that if things aren’t going well for me, it’s usually because I’m not hitting the ball the other way. So, that one felt better than the pull-side (homer), to be honest.
” The kid came up BIG tonight! 💪 pic. twitter.
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