Perhaps lost in the excitement and thrill of Tuesday night’s 11-inning Met victory over the White Sox was Amed Rosario‘s four-hit game from the eight-hole.
Coming into Tuesday’s game, Rosario was on a hot streak, having reached base safely in 16 of his last 17 games. Over his previous 34 games, he had been batting .333 (third in the National League in that span, 11th in the Majors) with three home runs and a .891 OPS.
He furthered that on Tuesday, going 4-for-5 with a run scored in the Mets’ 11-inning 5-2 win. While he ultimately did not have a huge impact on the result of the game, he continued this recent string of success which is starting to move past “small sample size” territory.
On the season, Rosario is now hitting .277/.318/.444, a much-improved and ever-progressing upgrade over last year’s .256/.295/.381 line.
Just like his career, his season has seen high points and low points, but Rosario has been on a tear for the entire month of July, a span in which he’s batting .338 with a .947. It’s taken him a little while, but Rosario is finally starting to show longer flashes of being the star shortstop the Mets once thought he was going to be. After all, he is still just 23 years old.
Tuesday night’s performance was Rosario’s second four-hit game of the season, and the third of his career. He also entered Tuesday’s game with 46 RBI, the 12th most among all MLB shortstops, and tied for third in the National League with five triples.
It’s been a rocky road for the former top prospect, who has brought as much frustration as he has shown flashes of stardom, however slowly but surely he is starting to turn things around and find more consistency.
It should be fun to watch the young shortstop going forward, and see if he can keep up this kind of production down the stretch.
