Elly De La Cruz solutions Brewers’ scoreboard jab with 456-foot homer

Let that be a lesson to whoever operates the video board at American Household Area to not tempt Elly De La Cruz.

After the Cincinnati Reds rookie was robbed of a house run within the prime of the primary by Milwaukee Brewers’ heart fielder Joey Wiemer, the scoreboard operator determined to have little enjoyable with De La Cruz his subsequent time up.

The place followers would normally see a participant’s stats or an outline of their final at-bat, they noticed one thing a bit totally different. 

“Virtually hit a house run within the first inning…however didn’t,” the video board learn as De La Cruz stepped into the batter’s field within the prime of the third. 

However these phrases shortly got here again to hang-out whoever wrote them because the shortstop did precisely what one would think about after seeing a taunt like that. 

De La Cruz crushed the ball 456 ft for a two-run residence run to offer the Reds a 2-1 lead over the Brewers, who went on to win the sport 3-2.

The blast was his sixth residence run of the season 

The Reds made certain to have a bit of enjoyable with it as nicely, trolling the Brewers on Twitter with a screenshot of the video board and tagging the “Baseball Photographs that Precede Unlucky Occasions” account.

The budding celebrity had already made a bit of historical past the day earlier than when he had hit his fifth residence run of the yr and tied Barry Bonds from 1986 for the second-fewest video games wanted to succeed in 5 residence runs and 15 stolen bases since 1900, reaching the mark in his fortieth sport, in response to ESPN Stats and Info. 

It in all probability was a bit of sweeter of a second coming in opposition to the Brewers, who the Reds are locked in a battle with for the division lead within the NL Central. 

The loss nonetheless dropped Cincinnati to a 1 1/2 behind the Brewers for the division lead.