With an extra-base hit and RBI in each of his last seven games, Bichette is the first shortstop to accomplish that since 1920, when the RBI became an official stat. Just like in his red-hot debut in 2019, each game seems to bring a new sliver of history that puts Bichette’s name among some all-time greats, or all on his own.\n\n“Everybody expects him to hit a line drive for a homer,” Hernández said after the game, breaking down his co-star of the evening. “He’s really on fire right now. That’s the feeling that we have from seeing him in front of us hitting line drives everywhere. That makes us try to go up there and do the same thing to help the team.”\n\n
Hernández’s first home run of the night travelled 459 feet and, after hitting one 466 feet on Wednesday, it’s becoming clear why the Blue Jays, internally, have been extremely high on his offensive potential despite some struggles in the past. These are the two longest home runs of his career, and they came in back-to-back games. He later put the game on ice with a three-run shot in the eighth, already his seventh on the season.\n\n“I know we can do even more than that on the baseball field,” Hernández said. “We have the talent. We have the energy. We’re trying to go out there and compete. Everybody expects us to not be as good as we are, but we’re really good. We’re going to fight.”
This offensive outburst helped to cover up another uneven start from right-hander