Cincinnati Reds first baseman Sal Stewart hit his team-leading sixth home run of the season, a three-run blast to right field off of San Francisco starter and former Red Tyler Mahle, to give the Reds a 3-0 lead during the first inning of their Jackie Robinson Day game against the Giants at Great American Ball Park.
“Stay hot, young man!” National Baseball Hall of Famer and Reds.TV analyst Barry Larkin said during the broadcast. “This is what he’s expecting himself to do. There’s no real surprise. This is what he does. Outstanding.”
Stewart added another three-run homer in the bottom of the second inning.
“I don’t know if you can get any more hot than what Sal Stewart is right now,” Larkin said after Stewart’s second homer. “It is such a relaxed, mature approach. And he is dominating the baseball. … Sal Stewart has just been on fire.”
Earlier in the game, play-by-play announcer John Sadak said Stewart “must be the odds-on favorite” for National League Rookie of the Year.
With the homers, Stewart boosted his batting average to .333.
Eugenio Suárez followed Stewart’s first-inning homer with a solo shot to increase the Reds’ lead to 4-0.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: ‘This is what he does.’ Barry Larkin reacts to Sal Stewart’s 3-run HRs
Reporting by Dave Clark, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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