Déjà vu? Bericoto homers back-to-back days -- with identical distance and exit velo
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Less than 24 hours apart, Giants rookie outfielder Victor Bericoto clubbed a pair of monstrous home runs with nearly identical metrics.
On Wednesday, Bericoto handed San Francisco a 2-1 victory over the Athletics with a walk-off home run off a hanging slider from Elvis Alvarado. Bericoto’s homer left the bat with an exit velocity of 108.7 mph and sailed a Statcast-projected 445 feet to left-center field, where it pinballed off the bleachers. It had a hang time of 5.2 seconds.
Then, on Thursday, Bericoto struck again. This time, he hammered a middle-middle fastball from Justin Sterner; sure enough, Bericoto hit the ball with an exit velocity of 108.7 mph and the home run traveled 445 feet to dead center field. Its hang time was 5.3 seconds.
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“He’s done it again,” Giants play-by-play man Dave Flemming said on the NBC Sports Bay Area telecast. “Another towering home run -- 445 for the second day in a row! The man is inspired.”
The 24-year-old Bericoto has appeared in 15 games for the Giants since making his MLB debut on May 22. Three of his six big league hits have been home runs.
It’s not the first time this season that we’ve seen a hitter inspire déjà vu with the long ball. In May, Braves center fielder Michael Harris II launched a pair of home runs -- two days apart -- with near-identical metrics that landed in virtually the same exact spot at Miami’s loanDepot park.
Bericoto, a native of Venezuela, is also playing with a heavy heart. He shared Thursday that his brother’s girlfriend was killed in the deadly earthquakes that struck the country Wednesday night.