By Jose Alejandro Rodriguez Jazz
Extraglass Cuba starter for Houston Astros, Yuli CourierThis Sunday, May 15, he crowned his best three-hit attack of the afternoon with the second home run of the 2022 MLB season against the Washington Nationals.
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At the end of this note the crowd was 5 × 0 in favor of the Citrians in seven complete innings.Yuli Curiel lined up as Astros’ fifth batter and first paceman, hitting two singles in his first two appearances on the plate, both against Knots starter and left-hander Patrick Corbin.
But the best game for him, so far, was when Yuli dropped him to first in the sixth inning, with two outs on the board, clean bases and a couple of two strikes and two balls, when he came to bat. Before Corbin for the third time.
Knots swung the curler on the 84-mile slider thrown with his left hand and sent the ball to fly over 373-foot left-field fences at 97 mph from the Cuban bat. With this home run, Cuba extended their team advantage to 3 × 0.
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Yuli’s second home run of the season (in the weekend sub-series against Washington) and his 88th of his Major League career, after 101 official up-bats without hitting the ball outside the park at MLB 2022.
In addition, Yuli scored 11 runs in the campaign and nine RBIs, who have already amassed 391 runs in his career, are nine short of 400 runs.
Somewhat by the end of the match and Kuriel’s offensive product (3-3, HR, CA, CI), he had raised his batting average to .250, and little by little a big improvement was noticed in him.
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Without further ado, enjoy a shot of Yuli Kuriel here:
