Edwin Encarnacion hits towering Opening Day home run (video)
Blue Jays’ Edwin Encarnacion gets the best of Masahiro Tanaka with this home run.
Opening Day baseball is in full swing (sorry), as the first wave of games have kicked off with the Blue Jays taking on the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.
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Despite facing Japanese ace Masahiro Tanaka, Blue Jays DH Edwin Encarnacion, one of the best power hitters in the game, wasted little time hitting the Blue Jays’ first home run of the new season. With Russell Martin on base, Encarnacion unleashed a towering two-run shot to left field carried all the way to the back wall of the first deck.
"If you miss to @encadwin, he’ll make you pay. #OpeningDay https://t.co/ntEYj6vW5L— Blue Jays (@BlueJays) April 6, 2015"
The home run gave the Jays a 5-0 lead over their big bad division rivals, as Toronto begins their attempt to end the majors’ longest playoff drought (they haven’t made the postseason since 1993) in the wide-open AL East.
Home runs are sort of Encarnacion’s calling card: he has 110 in the past three seasons, which has put him in the top ten in each of those seasons, though he has never led the league.
And of course, we got to see Encarnacion’s incredible home run trot, in which he stands so still a parrot could stand on his arm. Don’t believe me?
No one in the history of time has ever run like that. You’re one in a million, Edwin Encarnacion. You are a snowflake.
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