The Cincinnati Reds appear to have something in Rece Hinds.
The rookie outfielder continued a torrid start to his MLB career on Saturday with the first two-homer game of his career, giving him five in his first six games with the Reds. Overall, he went 2-for-3 with three runs and three RBI, having also reached base via a hit-by-pitch.
The Reds defeated the Miami Marlins 10-6.
Hinds is now 11-for-23 with three doubles, a triple, five homers, seven runs, 11 RBI and a .524/.565/1.476 slash line (that’s a 2.032 OPS). With all the caveats of a small sample being unreliable, that’s absolutely what you want to see from a player who was ranked only 15th on MLB Pipeline’s list of Reds prospects.
The two homers:
Per MLB.com’s Sarah Langs, Hinds’ nine extra-base hits in his first six games are two more than any other player in MLB’s modern era (since 1901). His six homers in that span are the second-most in MLB history, behind only Trevor Story’s seven in 2016.
Making Hinds’ start even wilder is that he was struggling in Triple-A for most of the season when he got the call to the majors, hitting .216/.290/.409 with 13 homers in 77 games for Triple-A Louisville. The Reds selected him in the second round of the 2019 MLB Draft.
