Joel Bartilotta 
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Today I’ll be highlighting one of my favorite contests on MKF, the Home Run Blast. Every Friday night MKF runs a special contest where if you play in a $5+ Home Run Blast contest and all 3 of your batters hit a home run you get a share of the jackpot. Tonight’s jackpot is $5,000!
With that said, lets dig in and see where we can find some long balls!
Home Run Blast
Gavin Sheets vs. JC Mejia
Gavin Sheets isn’t someone that comes to mind when talking about White Sox power. He actually has one of the highest ISO’s of anyone on the team this year vs. righties. Tonight he gets a great match up vs. JC Mejia.
Mejia has really struggled in the month of June. In his last 4 starts he’s given up 7 homers. Where we want to attack Mejia is with lefties. His ISO this year vs. lefties is a whopping .302 vs. just .094 against righties.
Mejia’s main pitch to lefties is his sinker which he throws about 45% of the time. Sheets, albeit a very small sample size, has an .857 ISO against this pitch with an average distance of 373 feet. If Mejia’s sinker isn’t on tonight, bombs away for Sheets. Confidence Level – High.
Jorge Soler vs. Ross Stripling
When looking for homers, Stripling is one of the best pitchers to target. Over his last 14 innings of work he’s given up 6 dongs. His outing on Sunday was the first time in nearly 2 months where he hadn’t given up homer.
The next 2 month streak of games with a homer starts tonight and the guy that I like the best to start it is Jorge Soler. To start, Soler has been hot over the past week with 4 homers, a .482 wOBA, and a wRC + of 215.
In looking at pitch mix he’s going to get a steady stream of low 90’s fastballs tonight with some sliders mixed in. Soler has a career ISO of .471 with an average distance of 341 against this pitch. Confidence Level – High
Joey Votto vs. Cookie Carrasco
At some point the law of averages will catch up with Votto. I just don’t see it happening tonight. Carrasco takes the mound for the first time in almost 2 years tonight after opting out last season and tearing his hamstring this season.
If we go all the way back to the 2019 season we can see that lefties were his weakness. He gave up way more fly balls and hard contact to that side of the plate. Votto is on an absolute heater and it won’t slow down tonight. Confidence Level – Highish.
Home Run Blast Wrap Up
Mejia and Stripling are both giving up homers at an insane pace right now. Guys like Moncada and Goodwin are also prime targets for homers on the Sox. With Royals, I also like Salvador Perez and Carlos Santana.
Good luck and hope to share the jackpot with you!
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