Christian Encarnacion-Strand’s midseason callup to The Show seems to have been a fruitful one for the Reds.
A former Oklahoma State baseball player, Encarnacion-Strand hit a walk-off home run in Cincinnati’s 1-0 win over the Twins (the team that drafted him) on Friday night. Encarnacion-Strand’s swing of the bat has the Reds two games back of the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL-Central, and it keeps Cincy in a wild card spot.
Since his callup in July, Encarnacion-Strand is hitting .253 in the bigs with four home runs and 15 RBIs.
CES was an All-American at Oklahoma State before the Twins took him in the fourth round of the 2021 MLB Draft.