Josh Naylor went 4-for-4 within the Cleveland Guardians’ comeback win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday, however it was his youthful brother, Bo, who gave him the “spotlight of (his) day.”
The elder Naylor, who turns 26 on Thursday, has two four-hit video games in his final three contests and has been one of many hottest hitters on the staff in latest weeks after an ice-cold March and April the place he produced a .212/.271/.341 slash line. The primary baseman is now on tempo for profession highs in batting common (team-high .295), on-base proportion (.338), slugging proportion (.464) and OPS (.803), whereas his 55 RBIs are probably the most on the Guardians, rating fourth within the American League and will surpass final 12 months’s excessive mark of 79 as nicely.
The 2015 first-round draft decide has additionally added 5 stolen bases, which is one away from final 12 months’s career-best of six.
The youthful sibling was chosen by Cleveland within the first spherical at twenty ninth general in 2018 and made his big-league debut final October, going 0-for-8 with 5 strikeouts. Since his latest call-up, the catcher has gone 1-for-12 with three runs scored.
With the latest launch of veteran backstop Mike Zunino, the Guardians’ beginning gig behind the plate is the 23-year-old Naylor’s job to lose. It appears to be like like he’ll have a devoted cheerleader from the dugout and on the sector in his large brother each step of the best way.
The Naylor brothers have helped Cleveland win three straight video games and get them proper again within the race within the pitiful AL Central division. Regardless of having a 35-38 report, supervisor Terry Francona’s membership is only one sport behind the first-place Minnesota Twins (37-38).
