After hitting a single and a triple in Thursday’s 7-6 win against the Orioles, Jake Cave is now hitting .474/.500/1.053 through seven spring training games. byalexcoffey offers more takeaways from today's spring training contest.
claimed 30-year-old outfielder Jake Cave off waivers in December, the transaction was announced with little fanfare. But since arriving in Clearwater, Cave has quickly made a lasting impression.
After hitting a single and a triple in Thursday’s 7-6 Grapefruit League win against the Orioles, Cave is now hitting .474/.500/1.053 through seven spring training games. As if going 2-for-3 wasn’t enough, Cave also made a nice sliding grab in the fourth inning to rob Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman of a hit. Cave played with the Minnesota Twins from 2018-2022, before he was claimed off waivers by Baltimore in October.The home runs were plentiful on Thursday. Bryson Stott hit his first home run of the spring in the first, a 404-foot lead-off bomb to right-center field that came off his bat at 104.1 mph.
Three days after a stray pitch hit Edmundo Sosa’s right arm and caused him to exit the game, the utility man hit his third home run of the spring, a shot to left-center field that scored Alec Bohm in the fourth.Three at-bats after Sosa, catcher Aramís Garcia hit his first home run of the spring, a 384-foot shot that nearly landed in the same spot as Sosa’s home run.home run in the sixth. It landed in left field, and came off his bat at 105.3 mph.
“I was glad I had an outing like this today, so I can figure out a strategy to slow the game down. Because these are the times when you’re giving up hits, and running around the field, backing up the bases. You’ve got to slow it down. That’s what we’ve done our whole life. So I’ve got to figure out a way to slow it down.”The Phillies’ Zack Wheeler will take the mound against Pirates right-hander J.T. Brubaker on at 1:05 p.m. Friday at BayCare Ballpark.
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