Ian Happ doubled against the Cincinnati Reds in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader in Great American Ball Park. Ian Happ homered in it, too, while also walking twice.
The University of Cincinnati product has made not just a habit of terrorizing the Reds in their home park, but he’s made a damn career out of it. Seriously, how much of Happ’s current 4-year, $72 million contract can we chalk up to the fact that he utterly obliterates the ball in a division opponent’s park without fail?
Even prior to his on-base-four-times-with-a-dinger afternoon, he entered having homered in GABP 16 times in just 40 starts in the stadium, his 1.