Corey Seager’s home run on Thursday against the Chicago White Sox marks his third straight 30-homer season for the Texas Rangers.
Texas Rangers shortstop Corey Seager takes an at bat during the sixth inning against the Oakland Athletics, Thursday, April 11, 2024, in Arlington.Seager slammed a 2-0 fastball inside the right field foul pole for his 30th homer of the season
. It’s his third straight 30-homer season for the Rangers. It was also the 200th of his career. He is the only exclusively left-handed hitting shortstop to reach that plateau. Seager is only 30.And, as usual, asking him about the significance of a milestone, big or small, was met with a bitter beer face.“I don’t really think about ,” he said. “I would rather have had three good, winning seasons than not. So, I don’t really think about that.
Seager acknowledged that he was holding on to the baseball, however. Even knew beforehand that he was sitting on 199. Said, who has 99 career stolen bases, informed him of where he was. The two, well, mostly Jankowski were conducting a race to the milestone. Jankowski, who rarely plays other than as a defensive replacement these days, got to No. 99 on Aug. 15. Since then, Seager has hit four homers.
For Seager, it has been a month. His homer was his 11th, tying his career high for any month. He also hit 11 in May. With two games remaining in August, he is slashing .293/.336/.677/1.013. Only the Yankees’ Aaron Judge, who began Thursday with 12, has more homers than Seager in the month. “I’ve just tried to put good swings on the ball and try to put myself in good positions and I think luck has been a little bit of a factor,” he said., Rangers beat writer/insider. Evan has covered the Rangers since 1997. He has twice been named one of the top 10 beat writers in the country by the AP Sports Editors. His passions outside of covering baseball are his wife, Gina, his two step kids, two crazy dogs & barbecue. Let's not discuss the cat.
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