The Jake Meyers game, Astros, takes down White Sox 8-3

October 12, 2021. Game 4 of the Alds between Astros and White Sox. Jake Meyers jumped into the middle of the field to rob Gavin leaves from a solo homerun in the lower half of the second inner. However, he was able to fail, and when he fell back, the midfielder suffered a Labralriss in his left shoulder, which probably changed the Trajectorium of his young career at that time.

In order to be clear, even in the middle of this breakout from 2021, Meyers’ game as a batsman had holes in it. With these first 163 record appearances, he recorded a strike rate of 30.7%, with his hit key figures being partially occupied by one .352 Babip. However, they were also able to see the potential and understand why James Click Myles straw exchanged the closing time to open a squad square for Meyers. Combine a league average bat, give or take a valuable player on the roster with his defense.

Although Meyers finally returned to Major League action in June 2022, his offensive figures did not start to recover until 2023. With a rebound he reached a highlight two years ago with an 88 WRC+, followed by an 86 WRC+ last season. I fluctuate between the conviction that the last two seasons were always in the future of Meyers or that his shoulder injury changed his trajectory considerably as a bat. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle of these two thoughts. In any case, 2025 may be his best chance to prove that he can stay on the major as a field of the start-caliber center. The defense is never an option. It will be its production as a pitcher who will ultimately determine his ceiling.

The production of Meyers this season agreed relatively with his last two seasons. When we entered the game on Saturday in his 92 record appearances, it saw us more of the same, one valuable defensive center field with a limited upward trend due to its below-average bat. That could remain very well for this season and beyond. However, his performance against today’s White Sox was a tempting memory of his initial potential. At 28 we probably already saw his offensive blanket, but it is fascinating to speculate what Meyers could achieve if his bat were still about the league average in a whole season.

It is fitting that the best game of Meyers as a professional in the same place where it was changed forever-with two home runs, a double and a triple, four for four years old. With a total of 13 bases he tied a club record. Seven RBI. Yes, he was a single short circuit before the cycle, but this performance was undoubtedly more impressive today. I sincerely hope that October 12, 2021 will be increasing for Meyers, with May 3, 2025 the first game that comes to mind when he thinks about the installment field again.

To be honest, the Astros required this production level against White Sox, especially with Yordan Alvarez, which was scratched this morning due to right inflammation. It did not help at the beginning of this game, as Hunter Brown, who now had a little problems in the team’s ASS -Pitcher, in the first inn. When Yainer Díaz stepped onto the plate for the first time, Houston was already facing a 3-0 deficit. Not a great place to start a game after the defeat on Friday. Back-to-back losses to the second worst team in baseball, although the Mariners are high at the moment, is not an optimal development even in May.

Meyers took over at the top of the third inning and met a solo homerun to reduce the deficit to 3: 1. An RBI triper in the fourth volume 3: 3, followed by his three-run Homerun in the sixth, which finally brought the Astros a 6: 3 lead that they would not give up. Zach Dezenzo achieved eighth place in the only non-Meyer and drove with an RBI double in Victor Caratini. However, Meyers still had a leg of legs and met an RBI double to drive two batteries later in Denzo.

Apart from this rough first inning, Brown looked like his usual self and excluded nine over six innings. Logan Vanwey, Bryan King and Bryan Abreu each threw a goalless inning to end the game and combined four strike outs. Overall, it was another solid excursion for the Pitching staff and a palate cleaner after Chicago had scored seven runs against this staff in the previous game. Lance McCullers Jr. will make his long -awaited debut on Sunday and the first appearance since game 3 of the 2022 World Series.

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