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Diamondbacks’ Eugenio Suarez blasts 2 home runs for 2nd straight game

Diamondbacks All-Star Eugenio Suarez crushed two home runs in his first two plate appearances on Saturday and Sunday against the Cardinals. 

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PHOENIX — Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star Eugenio Suarez crushed two home runs in his first two plate appearances on both Saturday and Sunday against the St. Louis Cardinals at Chase Field.

After a two-homer night in Saturday’s 10-1 win, Suarez walloped two pitches over the left-field wall within the first three innings of Sunday’s 5-3 win against Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas.

Suarez only trails Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh (eight) in multi-homer games this season with six. Arizona’s franchise record for multi-homer games is eight from Luis Gonzalez in 2001. Steve Finley (1999) and Yasmany Tomas (2016) are the only two with seven.

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The Diamondbacks took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Corbin Carroll tripled to lead off for the second straight game and scored on a fielder’s choice. With two runners on, Suarez obliterated a high slider 425 feet, off the bat at 111.7 mph.

With two outs in the third, Suarez attacked a first-pitch slider and shot it to left. The ball bounced off the top of the wall and into the bullpen for a 5-1 lead.

That second home run gave Suarez 35 on the season, the second most he’s hit in a campaign, trailing 49 (2019).

It also gave him the National League lead over Shohei Ohtani for the time being, as Ohtani homered between Suarez’s two blasts to tie the Diamondback up.

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Suarez had never hit multiple home runs in consecutive games before Sunday, per the D-backs.

He has hit six long balls in his last five games played, and he blasted two home runs in Arizona’s penultimate game before the All-Star break.

Catch the rest of the game on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app. 

Alex Weiner D-backs reporter and ArizonaSports.com editor

Alex Weiner is the Arizona Diamondbacks beat reporter for Arizona Sports and serves as a web editor for the station. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Alex moved to Arizona in 2017 to attend Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of… Read more

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