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Granderson is a three-time MLB All-Star, and won a Silver Slugger Award in 2011. As of 2019, he led active players in career triples, was 2nd in career strikeouts, was 5th in career home runs, and was the 6th-oldest player in the National League. April 19, 2012 may have been the best game Granderson ever had in his 16-year career.
Granderson hit two home runs during the 2006 American League Division Series and one in the 2006 American League Championship Series, but struggled in the 2006 World Series, batting .095, as the Cardinals defeated the Tigers. As a freshman at UIC in 2000, Granderson led the UIC Flames baseball team with seven home runs and 45 walks. He followed that by hitting .304 as a sophomore, leading the team in runs, home runs, and walks. Prior to the start of the 2008 season, the Tigers signed Granderson to a five-year, US$30.25 million contract with a club option for 2013. Granderson continued hitting well during the 2008 regular season, finishing with a .280 batting average, 13 triples and 22 home runs.
Granderson’s first at-bat as a Yankee
On May 6, 2012, Curtis achieved his 1,000th hit against the Kansas City Royals. On August 26, 2012, Granderson hit his 200th career home run against the Cleveland Indians. He finished the 2012 season with a .232 batting average, 43 home runs, 106 RBI, and set a new Yankees season record by striking out 195 times. Granderson played college baseball at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Granderson batted in the eighth and, swinging with all his considerable might, dribbled a ball toward the first baseman and reached safely for his fifth hit. On January 23, 2018, Granderson signed a one-year, $5 million contract with the Toronto Blue Jays. On April 18, facing the Kansas City Royals, Granderson hit his ninth career grand slam. On April 24, Granderson hit his first walkoff home run since 2016 in a 10th inning victory against the Boston Red Sox. On May 15, Granderson returned to Citi Field for the first time since he was traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers on August 18, 2017 and went 1 for 4 with a single. On June 10, against the Baltimore Orioles, Granderson hit for a career high six RBIs with a home run, two doubles, a single and a walk.
Granderson’s Home Runs Power Yankees Past Twins
"An incredible breadth and depth of knowledge in international law." We are an international law firm with a high level of partner attention and a reputation for excellence. Twins shortstop Jamey Carroll made a diving stab of Jeter's grounder in the first and an over-the-shoulder, diving catch on Robinson Cano's pop to shallow left field in the second. "You get it down there in that zone for him, he can turn on a baseball. That's a nice porch out there for left-handed hitters and he took full advantage of it."
Granderson agreed to terms with the New York Mets on a four-year contract worth $60 million on December 6, 2013. Granderson's salaries were set at $13 million in 2014, $16 million in 2015 and 2016, and $15 million in 2017. On May 12, Granderson returned to Yankee Stadium for the first time since he signed with the Mets, and went 2 for 5 with a home run. He batted .227, and had the highest number of pitches per plate appearance in the major leagues (4.37).
Curtis Granderson smacks 3 home runs in win
In the history, only 13 players had ever hit more than three home runs in one game. And Granderson, with Yankee Stadium's inviting left-field fence beckoning, figured to have two or three more shots at becoming No. 14. Off the field, Granderson has served as an ambassador for Major League Baseball International. He has traveled to England, Italy, the Netherlands, France, South Africa, China, New Zealand, South Korea and Japan to promote baseball.
The last Yankee with a three-home run game was Alex Rodriguez in 2010. Rodriguez was also the last Yankee to hit three homers at home back on April 26, 2005 against the Angels. Granderson became the 20th Yankee to hit three home runs in one game, and the first to do it while going 5 for 5. Derek Jeter had an RBI single in the second for his 3,110th hit, tying him with childhood idol Dave Winfield for 18th on the career list. Teixeira also homered in the first, a two-run shot to almost the same spot near the Yankees bullpen in right-center that Granderson’s drive landed. Granderson homered in each of his first three at-bats, driving in four runs, and helped Phil Hughes overcome a four-run first to secure his first victory of the season.
Teixeira also homered in the first, a two-run shot to almost the same spot near the Yankees bullpen in right-center that Granderson's drive landed. A notoriously slow starter, Teixeira homered in his 46th at-bat this season. The Yankees have had 28 three-homer games — Jackson hit three in Game 6 of the 1977 World Series — but only one of four homers, by Lou Gehrig in 1932. "A lot of work went into today before we actually stepped onto the field. Had some big issues with timing," said Granderson, who came in hitting .208 with three homers.
But he settled in and allowed just three hits over the next three innings before finding some trouble in the sixth. Granderson began his big night in the first inning with a solo home run on a 3-2 pitch over the wall in right-center off Twins starter Anthony Swarzak. He added a two-run shot the next inning and another solo homer in the fourth, his sixth of the season, to conclude the Yankees' scoring and earn a curtain call and standing ovation from the crowd.
Determined to complete his college education, though the fall semester began before the minor league season ended, Granderson made arrangements to begin his senior year at UIC via internet courses. Granderson attended Thornton Fractional South High School (T.F. South) in Lansing, where he played baseball and basketball. During his high school baseball career, Granderson batted .369 with 11 home runs and 88 runs batted in , and was named an All-State selection his senior year. South, choosing it because his father wore it while playing softball. South honored Granderson by retiring his jersey in a December 2011 ceremony.
Granderson will seemingly have at least a couple more at-bats to try to tie -- and perhaps surpass -- Lou Gehrig's club record of four home runs set in 1932. In the sixth, Hughes surrendered a leadoff walk to Morneau and a two-run homer to Doumit. He then struck out Valencia, but Girardi pulled the plug in favor of southpaw Boone Logan after 103 pitches. With Carroll running on the pitch, Joe Mauer then hit a routine groundball to second where Eduardo Nunez was filling in for Robinson Cano, who was the designated hitter last night. Nunez, notorious for his poor fielding, continued his struggles by botching the throw to first.
Stepped into the box with runners on first and second with two men out, down by a run. Grandy took a 2-1 pitch and drove it off the right-center field wall, scoring both runners and ending up on third base. His two-run triple put the Yankees ahead 4-3, and they would go on to win the game, 6-4.
He became the 12th major leaguer to hit three home runs in the first four innings of a game, according to STATS LLC and the SABR Home Run Log. Granderson and Daniel Murphy were the two most productive hitters in the Mets lineup during their 2015 postseason run to the World Series. While Murphy cooled off in the World Series against the Kansas City Royals, Granderson continued to be a consistent threat for the Mets out of the leadoff spot and also had three home runs and five RBIs in that World Series.
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Granderson had his first career MLB inside-the-park home run on September 15, a five-hit game September 18 and a walk-off home run on September 26 against the Chicago White Sox. Granderson homered in each of his first three at-bats, driving in four runs, and helped Phil Hughes overcome a four-run first inning to secure his first victory of the season. It's the first time a player -- Yankee or not -- has hit three home runs in a game at the new Yankee Stadium and the 27th time it's happened in Yankee history. NEW YORK -- It was obvious from the outset of tonight's game against the Twins that Phil Hughes was going to need as much run support as the Yankees bats could muster after allowing four runs in the first inning. Curtis Granderson takes a curtain call after hitting his third home run in four innings against the Twins tonight.
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