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Jake Meyers went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored as the Astros fell to the Padres on Sunday evening in Houston.
Meyers led off the third inning with a single and advanced to third before he was ultimately stranded there. He then led off the fifth inning with a double off of Dylan Cease and scored the club’s first run on an RBI single off the bat of Mauricio Dubon. With his two-hit attack, the 28-year-old outfielder is now hitting .305/.354/.373 on the season with zero homers, five RBI and seven swipes.
Jake Meyers went 3-for-4 with one RBI and a stolen base against the Cardinals on Tuesday.
Meyers was the only hitter in the game with more than one hit in the low-scoring affair. He knocked a base hit and stole second base in the second inning, then added a hit in the fourth before driving in the first run of the game with a single in the sixth. The 28-year-old outfielder is hitting well to start the season, slashing .289/.353/.333 with six steals over 51 plate appearances.
Jake Meyers is not in the lineup for Thursday’s bout against the Twins.
This makes three straight games that Meyers has been on the bench. There’s no known injury, so it appears Houston just feels more comfortable playing Chas McCormick and Mauricio Dubon in center right now, with Dubon getting the start Thursday. Hopefully a reporter for Houston will ask about that situation in the coming days.
Jake Meyers hit his second spring homer Monday off the Blue Jays’ Kevin Gausman.
Meyers had the second hardest-hit ball of the game at 110.2 mph, but that was a groundout. The homer was just a generic pop fly down the left field line that looked like it was going foul but that somehow came back over the wall. It left his bat at 93.8 mph with a 47-degree launch angle. To put that in perspective, there were only four homers hit with a launch angle of at least 47 degrees (nine at 45 or higher) during the entire 2024 season.
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