When Cincinnati Reds right fielder Nick Castellanos played his first full season in MLB in 2014, he finished the year with 11 home runs.
As a member of the Detroit Tigers, Castellanos didn’t hit his 30th career home run until his third full season in MLB. Even in 2019, when Castellanos led MLB with 58 doubles, he hadn’t yet completed a 30-homer season.
On Friday, in front of a crowd of 16,021 at Great American Ball Park, Castellanos hit his 30th homer of the season and reached that milestone for the first time in his career. Castellanos’ solo home run tied the score in the sixth inning.