Rodgers gets back on track with three hits

Top Rockies prospect homers, doubles to snap out of mini-slump

Brendan Rodgers broke out of a 3-for-19 skid with his three-hit performance for the Yard Goats. (Kevin Pataky/MiLB.com)

By Tyler Maun

May 30, 2018

Riding a cool stretch at the plate, Brendan Rodgers busted out on a warm night in Hartford.Colorado's top prospect homered and doubled on a 3-for-4 day, posting his first three-hit game in over three weeks as Double-A Hartford fell to Harrisburg, 6-3, at Dunkin Donuts Park. The temperature was 77

Riding a cool stretch at the plate, Brendan Rodgers busted out on a warm night in Hartford.
Colorado's top prospect homered and doubled on a 3-for-4 day, posting his first three-hit game in over three weeks as Double-A Hartford fell to Harrisburg, 6-3, at Dunkin Donuts Park. The temperature was 77 degrees at first pitch.

Rodgers went 3-for-19 (.158) over his previous six games. Baseball's No. 11 overall prospect followed a first-inning groundout by lashing a single to left field to lead off the fourth. Two innings later, with the bases empty and two out, Rodgers clobbered his 11th home run of the season to left-center.
The shortstop capped off his night with a ground-rule double to right-center in the eighth. Rodgers hadn't had an extra-base hit since his home run on May 22 at Portland.
Gameday box score
Through 28 games this month, the 21-year-old is batting .286/.325/.562 after putting up a slash line of .286/.326/.488 over 22 games in the season's opening month. Wednesday's homer was Rodgers' seventh of the month and the RBI was his 24th in May, five shy of his career high for any month, set last May with Class A Advanced Lancaster.
Osvaldo Abreu, Kelvin Gutierrez and Adam Brett Walker homered for Harrisburg.

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