Phillies prospect Gabriel Rincones Jr. made the most of an early opportunity in Clearwater, Fla., on Sunday afternoon, hitting a towering home run late in a spring training game for Philadelphia.
Rincones, playing his second game in his first time at big-league camp, put on a convincing power display in Philadelphia’s 6-3 loss to Baltimore. The left-handed hitter turned on a 96-mph fastball from Orioles right-hander Dylan Coleman and launched it 391 feet over the right-field wall at BayCare Ballpark, coming off the bat at 107.1 mph. His sky-high, two-run blast left the kind of impression that a club would want to see from a non-roster invitee.