When the Rangers selected Justin Foscue with the 14th overall pick in the 2020 MLB Draft, Rangers scouting director Kip Fagg said the team felt the infielder’s bat had a chance to be “special.” Foscue, the team's No. 5 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, is making good on that projection so far.

The 22-year-old homered in his eighth straight game Sunday for the Hickory Crawdads, socking a three-run blast in the top of the eighth inning against the Asheville Tourists. (The teams were completing a suspended game that started Friday.)

Eight straight games with a home run is the Major League record shared by Ken Griffey Jr., Don Mattingly and Dale Long.

Foscue began his streak on July 9 in his final game for the Rookie-level ACL Rangers on a rehab assignment. He returned to High-A Hickory and has continued to mash, going yard in each of his first seven games for the Crawdads.

Foscue began this season playing for High-A Hickory, but he suffered a left rib contusion that knocked him out for roughly six weeks. After appearing in three games for the ACL Rangers, Texas returned him to High-A.

Before the injury, Foscue was hitting .176 with two homers, six RBIs and a .678 OPS in 13 games. He entered Friday’s contest having hit .472 with eight homers, 17 RBIs and a 1.794 OPS in nine games since returning to action, and he padded those numbers Sunday when Hickory resumed its suspended game against Asheville.