Mark the date: July 27, 2021, the day Eloy Jiménez showed that he is definitely back. And how!
Eloy’s three-run, 459-foot blast in the eighth brought the White Sox from behind to victory, and a happy time it was. But tape-measure homers you expect from him. (Why do we call them tape-measure? Nobody makes 459-foot tape measures.)
It’s what came from Eloy earlier in the game that was unexpected — some pretty nifty D, none of it ending in injury to himself or any teammates. First came a nice running catch, one left fielders are expected to make, but Eloy rarely flashed such leather.