Delmon Young hit 12 home runs this season: four with the Twins, then eight with the Tigers after joining the club in the middle of August.
Yankees vs. Tigers: Delmon Young Goes Deep
Of those 12 home runs, exactly zero were hit to the opposite field. Delmon Young is a pull-hitter, and so he hits his home runs over the left-field fence. Not the center-field fence. The left-field fence. This year, anyway.
Until tonight, that is. With two outs in the top of the first inning -- oh, and why is Young batting third in the lineup, Jim Leyland? -- Young got a fastball roughly in the middle of the strike zone from CC Sabathia and sliced it into the second row of seats, just beyond the right-field fence.
You know, just in case Friday’s first game wasn’t enough to question your ability to predict the baseball future.
Young’s home run was a solo shot, and Sabathia retired Miguel Cabrera on a ground ball to end the inning.
Tigers 1, Yankees 0 after the top of the first inning.
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