Mike Tauchman was such an afterthought on the Yankees roster that when he returned to the dugout after blasting a three-run shot to the second deck to blow open an 8-0 win over the Red Sox, no one even realized it was the first home run of his career.
“He sat down next to me and told me it was his first home run,’’ Clint Frazier said.
Tauchman has been largely anonymous since arriving in a trade from Colorado late in spring training because the Yankees were in need of a fourth outfielder, with Aaron Hicks out with a back injury and Jacoby Ellsbury not close to taking the field.