On Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati, San Diego Padres first baseman Eric Hosmer completed something he had never done in his eight-year career, hitting a home run in three straight games. Personally, I haven’t written about Eric Hosmer much this season, maybe twice. How many different ways can you talk about his extreme amount of groundballs? However, this little surge in production led to me to look into Hosmer’s numbers for the first time this year.
Hosmer has been fairly solid over the past week, hitting .261 with an impressive .393 on-base percentage. Three of his six hits have been home runs, to go along with his five walks and just two strikeouts.