Reds top prospect Elly de la Cruz’s first career home run leads to announcer’s electric call during broadcast

Elly De La Cruz is already exhibiting MLB why he’s the Cincinnati Reds’ prime prospect, and he’s doing it with some flare.

De La Cruz, ranked the fourth-best prospect by MLB Pipeline, roped the primary hit of his large league profession on Tuesday evening at 112 mph off the bat in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers. However he needed to get one other accolade out of the best way on Wednesday evening at Nice American Ballpark in his second profession sport.

Going through Dodgers starter Noah Syndergaard, the 6-foot-5 change hitter batting from the left facet turned rapidly on a 92 mph fastball on the prime of the zone and despatched it hovering into the Cincinnati sky to proper discipline. 

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Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds hits a house run within the first inning in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nice American Ball Park on June 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. It was the primary residence run of his profession. (Dylan Buell/Getty Photos)

De La Cruz knew he obtained all of it as he gave a little bit bat flip and appeared towards his dugout. John Sadak, who’s in his third season as play-by-play announcer for the Reds Tv Community, had the proper response when he noticed how far De La Cruz hit the baseball.

“That baseball had a household!” Sadak screamed as De La Cruz began to run across the bases.

Nice American Ballpark went ballistic when De La Cruz, who they’ve been ready for within the bigs for fairly a while, made contact with the ball that traveled an estimated 458 toes.

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It was a significant homer, too, because it tied the ball sport within the backside of the primary inning, 2-2.

However De La Cruz wasn’t achieved exhibiting off his 5 instruments on the diamond.

In his subsequent at-bat, De La Cruz smashed one other ball off Syndergaard, however this time it stayed inside the confines of the ballpark. It did, nonetheless, get previous Dodgers proper fielder Mookie Betts and rolled all the best way to the wall.

Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds rounds the bases after hitting a house run within the first inning in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nice American Ball Park on June 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. It was the primary residence run of his profession. (Dylan Buell/Getty Photos)

That’s when De La Cruz turned on the jets, sprinting across the basepaths in report vogue.

He ended up sliding head-first into third base, and it was clocked because the second-fastest home-to-third time within the final 4 seasons at 10.83 seconds. It was the quickest time within the large leagues this 12 months.

De La Cruz signed for $65,000 with the Reds in July 2018 as a 16-year-old out of the Dominican Republic. He needed to look forward to the COVID-19 pandemic to move earlier than he may come over to america to get acclimated with the Reds’ minor leagues, however he rapidly obtained snug.

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Final season, De La Cruz went from Excessive-A Dayton to Double-A Chattanooga, the place he hit a mixed .304 with 28 homers and 86 RBI over 121 video games. That led the Reds to begin him this 12 months in Triple-A, and he raked there as properly with a .298/.398/.633 slash line with 12 homers and 36 RBI in 38 video games.

De La Cruz was prepared for the bigs and he’s already making his mark. And in doing so, he is exhibiting what the long run in Cincy seems like with their younger prospects together with Spencer Steer, Hunter Greene and others getting precious large league time. 

Elly De La Cruz of the Cincinnati Reds tosses his bat after hitting a house run within the first inning in opposition to the Los Angeles Dodgers at Nice American Ball Park on June 7, 2023, in Cincinnati. It was the primary residence run of his profession. (Dylan Buell/Getty Photos)

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The long run is clearly shiny for De La Cruz, and extra tape-measure photographs – and wild announcer calls – must be coming our manner.