HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Colt Keith rediscovered his home run swing in Houston, swatting three round-trippers against the Astros on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Keith, who bats from the left side, hit a towering, two-out, two-run shot to right-center in the third inning, a two-run drive down the right-field line in the seventh, and an opposite-field solo homer in the ninth over the 19-foot left field wall at Daikin Park.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was up there and on-time for the fastballs tonight and I was able to do some damage,” Keith said after finishing with six RBIs in the Tigers’ 9-3 victory. \u201cWe all know they come in bunches in this game.”<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old Keith hit 13 home runs in each of his previous two major league seasons, but had just one this year before Monday night’s power display in Houston.<\/p>\n
The only Tigers player younger than Keith to launch three home runs in a game was Hall of Fame outfielder Al Kaline, who was 20 when he did it on April 17, 1955.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see the ball well here,\u201d said Keith, who was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the first. \u201dDefinitely one of the best games I’ve had in my life. It was a lot of fun. We’ve just got to keep stacking days, and keep doing it and get back in this thing.”<\/p>\n
The Tigers (30-42) have struggled for much of this season, but were six games out of the American League’s third and final wild-card playoff spot after Monday’s victory.<\/p>\n
Max Muncy and Andy Pages of the Los Angeles Dodgers are the only other major leaguers to hit three homers in a game this season. Muncy did it April 10 against Texas and Pages accomplished the feat May 6 \u2014 also in Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 Colt Keith rediscovered his home run swing in Houston, swatting three round-trippers against the Astros…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":870650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5955,261438,354285,4345,8327,223492,223490,325970,324435,358,3187],"class_list":["post-870651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-andy-pages","tag-colt-keith","tag-colt-keith-tigers-three-home-runs","tag-houston","tag-max-muncy","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40792-ap-michigan-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-texas","tag-tx"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}