Josh Jung, Former Texas Tech Standout, Homers in Texas Rangers Debut

ARLINGTON, Texas — Josh Jung hit a house run in his first Main League at-bat for the Texas Rangers on Friday night time at Globe Life Discipline.

Jung, the Rangers’ No. 1 general prospect, hit a 1-2 pitch off Blue Jays starter Ross Stripling over the left-field fence to provide the Rangers their first run of the sport. Texas was down 3-1 on the time.

Jung is the second Rangers participant to homer in his first MLB at-bat. The primary was Jurickson Profar on Sept. 2, 2012, in Cleveland. Jung is the primary to do it at residence.

Jung performed baseball for Texas Tech and was a former Huge 12 Participant of the 12 months. He later grew to become the Rangers’ first-round decide. 

Former Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes, now taking part in quarterback with Kansas Metropolis, was watching because the Chiefs put together for his or her season-opener with Arizona. 

Jung made his first MLB begin on Friday towards Toronto, about six months after a torn labrum in his non-throwing shoulder required surgical procedure and practically put an finish to any risk of him taking part in in 2022.

As a substitute, Jung rehabbed the shoulder and caught fireplace as soon as he was capable of get again on the sphere.

On July 28, the Rangers despatched Jung to their Arizona Advanced League workforce for some rehab at-bats. He shortly went from simply being a DH to taking part in third and hit .240 with three residence runs and 5 RBI in eight video games and 25 at-bats. That was sufficient to get the Rangers to ship him to Triple-A Spherical Rock, the place Jung hit .348 with 9 residence runs and 21 RBI final season.

He joined the Categorical on Aug. 9 and began hitting tape-measure residence runs with regularity. He completed with a .273 common, six residence runs, and 24 RBI. He hit 5 residence runs in his first eight video games and began teasing Rangers followers with an early call-up.

Since making his skilled debut on the finish of 2019, Jung has slashed .311/.381/.538/.919 (187-for-602) with 30 residence runs, 43 doubles, and 118 RBI over 153 profession video games within the minor leagues, together with batting .308/.377/.577/.954 in 109 video games throughout the final 2 seasons.

Because the starting of the 2021 season, Jung ranks amongst all minor league batters (minimal of 400 plate appearances) in slugging proportion (eleventh, .577) and OPS (14th, .954), main Texas minor leaguers in these classes over that span.

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