It was cold, 46 degrees at first pitch and chillier as the night progressed. It was damp, beginning with a 25-minute delay at the start due to rain. It was Citi Field, nobody’s idea of a launching pad. It was early April, the ninth to be exact. One of the two starters was Jacob deGrom.
Since opening in 2009, Citi Field has hosted 826 games, regular and postseason. What if I told you this game — the cold, wet, deGrom start — would produce a record 10 homers for this stadium and that six would come from a Twins team playing without its main power force, Nelson Cruz, in a DH-less NL park game?