Fernando Tatis Jr. is a week away from meeting with the Padres in Arizona on April 20. He seems to be ready to play right now.
The rehabbing star from San Diego smashed a pair of 400-foot home runs as part of a three-homer night for Triple-A El Paso against Albuquerque, with the first traveling a whopping 451 feet to center field at Southwest University Park. He finished the night with five hits and eight RBIs.
Wearing a dark blue El Paso Margaritas jersey, the Copa de Diversión identity for the Chihuahuas, the 24-year-old leaped over a first-pitch fastball from right-hander Jeff Criswell and threw it 115.1 mph to center field for his first jack of the night.
He would make Criswell pay again just two frames later, sending his second home run of the night to center field yet again, this one at 418 feet and 111.9 mph from the start. Tatis finished a triple shy of the cycle and hit a three-run long ball to left center, his third of the game, in the bottom of the eighth.
Tatis Jr. en triple A
Tatis has racked up four home runs in his rehab assignment and has recorded at least one hit in all but one of his six starts thus far. He has been hitting the cover of the ball almost every time.
Fuente: MILB.com
