Travis Bazzana, the No. 1 pick in this month’s amateur draft, hit a grand slam for his first professional home run in High-A Lake County’s 17-5 rout of Beloit in the Midwest League.
EASTLAKE, Ohio – Travis Bazzana, the first pick in this month’s amateur draft, hit a grand slam for his first professional home run Wednesday night in High-A Lake County’s 17-5 rout of Beloit in the Midwest League.
The 21-year-old Australian, selected by Cleveland on July 14, homered to right center in the fifth inning against left-hander Caleb Wurster, a 25-year-old lefty from the Miami Marlins’ farm team.
Leading off the batting, Bazzana also singled, walked twice and scored three runs in concluding a game suspended because of wet ground Tuesday night with the score 0-0 and no outs in the top of the second.
He signed for $8.95 million on July 19 after playing at Oregon State. Bazzana hit an RBI grounder on Friday in his professional debut against Great Lakes. He went 2-for-4 with a double on Sunday.
Bazzana is hitting .364 with one home, five RBIs, five runs and a stolen base in three games. He did not play in Wednesday’s scheduled game.
Baltimore’s Jackson Holliday, the first pick in the 2022 amateur draft, hit a grand slam in the fifth inning for his first major league home run in the Baltimore Orioles’ 10-4 victory over Toronto on Wednesday afternoon. Holliday, son of seven-time All-Star Matt Holliday, made his major league debut on April 10. He went 2-for-34 with 18 strikeouts, was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk on April 26 and was called up on Wednesday.
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