OC Register Reports:
“He’s impossibly good right now, says Brewers teammate Ryan Braun. He’s making something that is incredibly difficult look so easy. And he’s done it over a large sample size when you go back to the All-Star break last year.”
In the short sample size of the 2019 season, Yelich leads the majors with 13 home runs — one short of the record for home runs before May 1 shared by Albert Pujols (2006) and Alex Rodriguez (2007). With three more home games this month, Yelich should get there.
All 13 of his home runs (and 29 of his major-league leading 31 RBI) have come in the Brewers’ 13 home games including four in the first three games of this series with the Dodgers. In 87 home games at Miller Park since the Brewers acquired him from the Miami Marlins, Yelich has hit 35 homers (with only 14 on the road).
“I don’t look at the records or what we’ve got going on. For me, it’s one day at a time,” said Yelich who won last year’s National League MVP award with a torrid second half. “Focus on the moment, what you want to accomplish that day with your approach. Good or bad, reset the next day.
“I feel pretty comfortable hitting here. We’ve played a lot of games at home, too, already. That’s probably because we have a roof and it’s pretty cold up here at the beginning of the year. It’s not really a home-road thing. It’s just a great hitters’ park. It plays fair. It rewards a good approach. Where I came from in Miami, you can probably put that up there as one of the worst. This one is up there (as a hitters’ park).”
In the more neutral environment of Dodger Stadium last week, the Dodgers held Yelich to two singles and no RBI in 12 at-bats over three games.
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