The sought-after Venezuelan prospect of the Dodgers, Diego Cartaya, has started to look different over the past seven days in Double-A Tulsa.
After starting the year with a .190 average, .288 OBP and .337 slugging percentage in 26 games, the slugger entered Wednesday's game having combined for a .893 OPS in his last six games. He had scored eight runs in that span, two of them home runs.
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“I'm just trying to keep it simple at the plate, just put the ball in play,” Cartaya said. “I feel like when I do that, good things happen.”
Heading into Wednesday's game, Diego Cartaya had homered in back-to-back games, and he wasted no time in extending that streak.
After three pitches into his first at-bat, he hit a solo shot to left field. Baseball's top catching prospect posted an exit velocity of 101 mph on the drive.
Cartaya hit another extra-base hit in his next turn, with a double to left field.
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