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1. Luis Gil Yankees (26 first-place votes)
In the absence of Gerrit Cole, Gil has emerged as a near carbon copy of the Yankees' ace. Through 11 starts, the 26-year-old has pitched to a 7-1 record, a 1.99 ERA and more than 11 strikeouts per nine innings pitched. He leads the Yankees in all three of those categories and has also allowed a rotation-low 29 hits across 63 1/3 innings. In fact, his 4.12 hits allowed per nine innings is the best in baseball.

Gil, named the AL Pitcher and Rookie of the Month for May, has been a very pleasant surprise for New York, but he's been exactly what the Yankees needed with Cole rehabbing an elbow injury. And he's been a big reason why the Yanks remain in first place in the AL East.
 
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Anthony Volpe has a 30 game on base streak.

He’s now hitting .283 with a .350 on base.

If Boone takes him out of the leadoff spot, I’m gonna recommend he be kicked in the d!ck.
 
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On June 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park Mickey Mantle, batting right-handed slugs a 550-foot home run against Chicago White Sox left-hander Billy Pierce in the 4th inning during the second game of the doubleheader. The blast clears the upper deck in left field at Comiskey Park. The Yankees would go to win the game in 10 innings 5-4.

Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Mantle’s blast went over the park’s 160-foot high left-field roof, directly above the field’s 360-foot mark. The ball eventually landed on a car parked on the other side of 34th Street, smashing the car’s windshield. A parking lot attendant recovered the ball.

Some papers reported that Mickey’s drive landed on the roof or hit a light tower but didn’t go out of the park. But the Comiskey Park attendants on the roof went to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared the roof and gone completely out of the park.

Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. However, Mickey’s homer is the only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the stadium.


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peaygolf said:
On June 5, 1955, at Comiskey Park Mickey Mantle, batting right-handed slugs a 550-foot home run against Chicago White Sox left-hander Billy Pierce in the 4th inning during the second game of the doubleheader. The blast clears the upper deck in left field at Comiskey Park. The Yankees would go to win the game in 10 innings 5-4.

Pierce tried to slip a fastball past Mickey and the Mick tore into it, sending a scorching high drive to left. The ball cleared the 360-foot mark, crossed the 160-foot roof and descended to smash a car windshield on 34th Street outside. Mantle’s blast went over the park’s 160-foot high left-field roof, directly above the field’s 360-foot mark. The ball eventually landed on a car parked on the other side of 34th Street, smashing the car’s windshield. A parking lot attendant recovered the ball.

Some papers reported that Mickey’s drive landed on the roof or hit a light tower but didn’t go out of the park. But the Comiskey Park attendants on the roof went to the Yankees locker room after the game to tell Mickey that his homer had cleared the roof and gone completely out of the park.

Only Jimmy Foxx had ever hit a ball that far. However, Mickey’s homer is the only one to have eyewitnesses to verify that it actually cleared the stadium.


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I’m pretty sure he has a legendary 500 footer from the left side as well.

Just an absolute freak of nature. I still maintain he’s the most talented player to ever wear the pinstripes.

What could have been? If not for that drain…

One of the great “what if’s” in Yankees history.
 
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New York Yankee Tom Tresh homered from both sides of the plate in a single game three times in his career, but the best of the lot occurred during a June 6, 1965 doubleheader sweep of the White Sox (6-1, 12-0, in Yankee Stadium) when he hit four home runs, three in the nightcap.

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peaygolf said:
New York Yankee Tom Tresh homered from both sides of the plate in a single game three times in his career, but the best of the lot occurred during a June 6, 1965 doubleheader sweep of the White Sox (6-1, 12-0, in Yankee Stadium) when he hit four home runs, three in the nightcap.

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How many times did Mickey do it?
 
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