Marco Hernandez is 13-for-41 (.317) for the Red Sox this season. Not all those hits have been big, but it sure seems that way.
Hernandez pinch-hit, opposite-field home run to left bailed out another blown save from the bullpen and helped the Sox escape from Toronto with an 8-7 victory on the Fourth of July.
Hernandez is 3-for-3 as a pinch-hitter with two doubles and his home run. And in the ninth inning? Per @BostonSportsInf, he's 6-for-9 (.667), with five extra-base hits, two homers and three RBI.
It's been a memorable return to the majors for the 26-year-old utility man from the Dominican Republic, who hadn't played in the majors since May of 2017 after suffering a shoulder injury that required three surgeries to repair.
It's been less than a month (June 8) since Hernandez came back to the Red Sox. Since then...
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His two-out, ninth-inning home run in Baltimore on Father's Day, June 16 - his second career homer (the first also came at Camden Yards) - tied the score and sent the game to extra innings where the Sox would eventually prevail, 8-6.
His hustle on a two-out, infield hit in the ninth inning gave the Sox a 6-5 walk-off win over the White Sox on June 24.
And now his heroics in Toronto send the Red Sox back to the U.S. for the first time in more than a week having taken two of three from the pesky Jays. It was a Michael Chavis strikeout that set up Hernandez. Per MassLive.com's Christopher Smith. After Chavis struck out for the first out, Hernandez was sent up to pinch hit for catcher Sandy Leon. If Chavis had reached, Leon would've been sent up to bunt.
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