On April 25, in his final plate-appearance in a loss at Chicago, Eric Hosmer singled to shortstop for his only hit of the game. The knock raised Hosmer’s batting average to .195 and did little to ease the disappointment of the season’s first month.
Who knew that was the start of Hosmer’s nine-game hitting streak, a tear that produced perhaps his biggest moment of the season on Friday?
Hosmer’s mammoth two-run homer on Friday put the Royals ahead in the fifth inning and lifted them to a 3-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians.
Hosmer’s blast traveled an estimated 458 feet, making it the longest of the Royals’ 27 home runs this season.