ANAHEIM -- There are heaters, and then there is whatever Jac Caglianone is on right now.
Since the calendar turned to August, it’s been all gas, no breaks for the 23-year-old, who has recorded a hit in every game he’s played this month. In this 12-game hitting streak, he has had multihit games in six of them.
The latest installment to Caglianone’s warpath was a 3-for-4 effort in which he recorded a career-high five RBIs and hit a two-run homer off a left-hander in the Royals’ 7-6 win on Friday night at Angel Stadium.
In August, Caglianone is hitting .446 with five home runs, 18 RBIs and only five strikeouts in 49 plate appearances.
Caglianone’s three-hit performance began in the third inning.
With the bases loaded, he went down and golfed a changeup into right field for a two-strike single to score a pair of runs.
In the fifth, he was up against left-hander Sammy Peralta, who left a slider over the middle of the plate, which Caglianone belted into the seats in right field for a two-run homer.
Then in the seventh inning, with the Royals down a run, Caglianone once again came up big against a left-hander when he singled into right field to score Bobby Witt Jr. from first base to tie the game at 6-6.
Before Friday, he was hitting just .244 with a .700 OPS against lefties.
That set up Michael Massey’s RBI single to score Caglianone to give the Royals the lead.
The win snaps a four-game losing streak for the Royals, a stretch in which they lost six out of seven games.