Reds become first team in 12 years to homer on three straight pitches
After hitting eight combined homers in their first two games against the San Francisco Giants, the Cincinnati Reds did not need much to time Sunday to make it nine homers for the series.
It took them even less time to make it No. 10 and No. 11.
Eugenio Suárez, Jesse Winker and Derek Dietrich all hit back-to-back-to-back homers for the Reds in the first inning on Sunday, pouncing on Giants starter Jeff Samardzija for an early 4-0 lead.
Three. Straight. Pitches. #BornToBaseball pic.twitter.com/XXYtaAsyhx
— Cincinnati Reds (@Reds) May 5, 2019
The biggest of the group belonged to Dietrich, who hit a 110-mph, 421-foot rocket to the upper reaches of the Great American Ball Park outfield stands. The left-fielder punctuated the shot with an emphatic bat drop.
Breaking the combo was rookie Nick Senzel, who took a called strike on Samardzija’s first pitch. Senzel actually put a charge into a line drive five pitches later, but it ended up getting caught a few feet shy of the warning track.
The three homers were still enough to make plenty of history, as it was the first time the Reds had been recorded to homer on three straight pitches and the first time any team had done so since the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2007.
Eugenio Suarez, Jesse Winker and Derek Dietrich of the @Reds hit back-to-back-to-back home runs on 3 straight pitches.
The last team to do this was the Dodgers on June 12, 2007: Wilson Betemit, Matt Kemp and Hong-Chih Kuo all homered off the Mets' John Maine.#BornToBaseball— Stats By STATS (@StatsBySTATS) May 5, 2019
The @Reds hit 3 straight HR on 3 straight pitches for the first time since at least 1988 (beginning of pitch count data). pic.twitter.com/qRi1a0Z17M
— MLB Stats (@MLBStats) May 5, 2019
Sadly for the Reds, that would be the last of their homers for the day. They ended up losing 6-5 to the Giants despite being spotted a 4-run lead in the first inning.
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