Why wait for Philadelphia? On the day he committed to the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, Junior Caminero continued his incredible homer binge by going deep for the fifth straight game in the Rays’ 10-4 win over the Royals on Tuesday night. Batting with runners on the corners and none out in the third inning, Caminero hammered an 0-1 fastball from left-hander Noah Cameron and blasted it to left field, just to the left of the fountains at Kauffman Stadium. Caminero’s 23rd home run of the season traveled a Statcast-projected 438 feet. “With a hitter like that, with as hot as he is, can't really throw fastballs in the zone with him,” Cameron said. “Not necessarily a bad pitch to a normal hitter, I guess.” But Caminero is not a normal hitter, and this is no ordinary hot streak he’s put together. Caminero’s 23rd home run of the season was also the slugger’s eighth homer in his past seven games, the most in a seven-game span at age 22 or younger since at least 1900. Kyle Schwarber is the only player to go deep eight times in any seven-game stretch since 2022, having done so in May.
