Pirates' Oneil Cruz backs up bold prediction with 116.9 mph feat against Rangers
He just had a feeling.
Pirates' Oneil Cruz backs up bold prediction with 116. 9 mph feat against Rangers originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here .
Oneil Cruz certainly does not lack confidence. The Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder also hits the ball as hard, if not harder, than anyone in baseball . Before his 116.
9 mph home run against the Texas Rangers on Wednesday, Cruz was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts. "In an 8-4 win over the Rangers, Cruz mashed a soft cutter, bouncing it off the top of the right-field foul pole. Had the pole not been in the way, it would have traveled an estimated 432 feet from the plate, per Statcast," MLB.
com's Dave Sessions wrote . "The ball ricocheted into the third of Globe Life Field’s four decks in that area. The 116.