Green completes cycle for Pulaski
Ryder Green did more damage in the span of two innings than he had in his first four games of the season.The Yankees' No. 23 prospect hit for the cycle, completing it with a seventh-inning double, as Rookie Advanced Pulaski rolled past Bluefield, 18-5, on Sunday at Calfee Park.Green scored
The Yankees' No. 23 prospect hit for the cycle, completing it with a seventh-inning double, as Rookie Advanced Pulaski rolled past Bluefield, 18-5, on Sunday at Calfee Park.
Green scored three times and drove in a pair of runs in his first four-hit game since the Yankees selected him in the third round last year's Draft.
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The 19-year-old came into the game with two hits in his first 14 at-bats of the season but equaled that total with a single to center field in the first inning and a triple to center in the third. He reached on a throwing error to begin the Yankees' eight-run sixth and scored on
Green blasted his second homer of the year to left-center later in the frame and completed the Minors' 11th cycle of the year with an RBI double to center in the seventh. Even after striking out in his final at-bat in the eighth, the four-hit performance raised his average 157 points to .300.
It had been nearly a year since an Appalachian League player hit for the cycle.Top Rays prospect
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