BALTIMORE — The excellent news is Aaron Decide has 37 homers, essentially the most by a Yankee by 97 video games since Mickey Mantle hit 39 in 1961.
On the flip aspect, if Decide goes to make a run at historical past, he and the Yankees have simply three video games left in opposition to the Orioles — the slugger’s favourite punching bag.
Decide has seven homers in his final 9 video games in opposition to Baltimore and the 35 he has hit in his profession versus the Orioles are greater than in opposition to another group.
At this level, although, it hardly appears to matter what opponent the Yankees are dealing with, since he has six homers in his final seven video games general.
“He’s so constant, it’s like he’s been scorching all 12 months,’’ DJ LeMahieu mentioned. “That’s extraordinarily tough. It doesn't matter what stage of participant you might be, it’s spectacular. And to do it on the stage he’s doing it at, he’s the very best participant within the recreation proper now.”
That’s a well-known chorus across the league at this level, particularly within the Yankees clubhouse.
“It’s unbelievable,’’ Nestor Cortes mentioned, who pitched six scoreless innings within the Yankees’ 6-0 win Sunday. “Every little thing he does, from the second he steps into the clubhouse to the second he’s on the market stretching to when he’s enjoying the sport, every thing about him is excellence.”
Together with his potential to foretell homers, apparently.
After hanging out within the first inning Sunday, he apologized to Aaron Boone earlier than his second at-bat and added, “I’ve bought you right here.”
Then he went out and adopted LeMahieu’s two-out RBI double by drilling a 456-foot two-run shot that gave the Yankees a 3-0 lead within the third.
After his two-hit day — he additionally singled within the seventh and walked and scored within the ninth — Decide is batting .294, the best his common has been since June 26.
He has reached base a number of occasions in seven straight video games. Throughout that stretch, he’s 14-for-25 with two doubles, six homers and 15 RBIs.
Whereas Decide received’t say if he has a house run whole in thoughts for this season, he does admit he needs to hit .300.
“I’ve at all times mentioned a great hitter is a man with a excessive common,’’ Decide mentioned. “That’s what I noticed in a variety of greats [like] Albert Pujols and Miguel Cabrera. They hit .300 and the ability got here with it. It’s at all times a objective of mine to attempt to hit above .300. I’m working in direction of it.”
“It’s necessary to him,’’ Boone mentioned. “He continues to develop his recreation and never be glad.”
As for the house run quantity, Decide mentioned, “I strive not to consider it, like I’ve mentioned earlier than.”
That will probably be unattainable if he retains up this tempo.
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