Bahamian professional baseball player Jasrado ‘Jazz’ Chisholm Jr. and the Bronx Bombers were out in full force on Tuesday.
The New York Yankees scored a season-high 15 runs on a whopping 24 hits on Tuesday, slamming the Kansas City Royals, 15-1, at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri.
Chisholm was right in the mix, hitting his sixth home run of the season. He finished 2-for-5 with a home run and two runs scored.
The Yankees had six home runs in total, including two from Amed Rosario, and the 15 runs scored matched the most for the team since a 20-run outburst against the Milwaukee Brewers in their first series of the year last season.
The 24 hits were their highest single-game hit tally in 15 years, and for the first time in Yankees franchise history, every single starter in the lineup recorded at least two hits.
The 24 hits were also the most in a game by any team in the majors this season, surpassing the 20 by the Baltimore Orioles in a 10-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on April 24, the 20 that were performed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 13-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on May 9, and the 20 by the Toronto Blue Jays in a 14-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels, also on May 9.
Chisholm, 28, is leading the charge in the middle of the Yankees’ lineup. Prior to last night, the talented Bahamian was batting .400 over his last 12 games, seven of which were multi-hit games, including two three-hit performances.
Chisholm is slashing .246/.324/.400 on the season, with six home runs, 20 RBIs (runs batted in) and 25 runs scored. He also has 13 steals this season — tied with his teammate José Caballero for ninth in Major League Baseball (MLB).
All of these numbers were going into the Yankees’ game against the Royals last night. The result was unavailable up to press time.
The Yankees have been in a slump offensively, but maybe Tuesday’s outing was the wake-up call they needed. As a team, the Yankees lead the league in home runs with 82, but are in a three-way tie for 16th in hits and are 15th in team batting average at just .241 going into last night’s game.
On Chisholm’s home run ball, he lifted a 77.9 miles per hour (mph) changeup from Royals’ reliever Eli Morgan and sent it to deep right center field for his sixth home run of the year. The shot traveled 416 feet with an exit velocity of 107.3mph at a launch angle of 23 degrees.
Chisholm was hitless in three at-bats at that point, becoming the last Yankees’ starter to collect a hit. One inning later, he was the Yankees’ starter to have a two-hit game as the team set a franchise record — the first time in club history that every single starter recorded at least two hits.
Going into last night’s game, the Yankees had a 33-22 win/loss record — two and a half games behind the Tampa Bay Rays (34-18) for first place in the American League East Division of MLB.
The Yankees are off today and will face the Athletics in a three-game set at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento, California, over the weekend.
