Baez then hit his 13th home run of the season to make it 8-0.“I’ve been seeing the ball really good,” Baez said. “And making my adjustments, hitting the ball really hard.”Baez extended his season-best, nine-game hitting streak with an opposite-field double in the first inning.
B1 | WAY BACK AND GONE! Eloy Jimenez smokes a two-run homer to put Eugene up, 2-1. 102.1 MPH off the bat, 394 feet.
Baez' homer easily cleared the high wall in center.http://www.milb.com/multimedia/vpp.jsp?content_id=407857283&sid=milb
"I'm seeing Javy really make some commitments to kind of cut down his swing and lessen some of the movement with his lower half and upper half," Harper said. "If anybody's seen Javy play, he has a tendency to overswing."I'll joke around with him and tell him he only needs to hit the ball 400 feet instead of 800 feet. He's making a commitment to do that, with two strikes to cut down on his swing, and you can see it in the numbers."With Ramirez in town, Harper and the larger-than-life Major League veteran spent some time with Baez prior to the game."Manny and myself talked to him about doing some things and he took it into the game and did a great job," Harper said.