Michael Chavis at Grand Slam gives power to Red Sox

BOSTON – Michael Chavis He sent one of them to fly to the monster seats and got up to watch a second, admiring the flight of his first career Grand Slam.

The rookie had the opportunity to time his majestic shots just when the Red Sox needed, and Monday night was part of it.

The rocket in the center, which landed in the last row of the Monster Seats down the first inning, sent Boston on the road to winning 10-8 against the Blue Jays.

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After a tough defeat of 12 wins against the Dodgers on Sunday, in five hours and 40 minutes, the defending World Series champions in search of a win deserved a win to kick off a series of four games against the Jays.

With the help of Chavis, that's what they had.

But the excitement felt by Chavis at the point of contact was not related to how he had managed to scold.

Instead, everything was on the process. The first pitch 3-2 of starter Jays Trent Thornton was a fast high ball, and this is the terrain that Chavis has succumbed to many times during his initiation to the major leagues. But with this one, he made a mistake in return rather than hitting, which gave him another chance to do some damage on the next pitch.

"I know it's something that people are attacking and in this situation, it's probably the safest throw," Chavis said. "If it means fouling it up, trying to reach another one or just taking it for a ball, it's definitely a job I'm working on doing that to win the next pitch, that's Is something that I've written somehow in my book too, it's like "Win a pitch to hit", and I think that's what I did, so it's very satisfying, that's for sure. "

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Oh yes, the book. Chavis has a logbook that he constantly updates, and he did it again in the dugouts shortly after his slam.

What was the point of another reminder of how things work when you win the next pitch?

"Yes, that's what it was, but in the notebook, a little more detail.Yeah, that's pretty much everything," Chavis said.

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The right-handed hitter has 16 homers and gives the Sox a boost with his production since his April 19 recall. According to Statcast, the Chavis slam had an exit speed of 106.6 mph and a projected distance of 421 feet.

Since he was in high school, Chavis was able to hit back and forth tape measure. The night the Red Sox spotted him in the first round of high school in 2014, the team's general manager at the time, Ben Cherington, said that Chavis had "parking power" .

What Chavis is working on these days is to be a better all-round hitter. Sometimes there are nuances, such as going in his last two finals on Monday.

"Personally, strangely, I was more excited about both walks, just showing a little discipline and staying in it," Chavis said. "Trying not to overdo it and not to develop It's more important to me, I mean, I know I have the power, I know I can hit, but I'm trying to grow and to become a better hitter, that's a good sign. "

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Although 23-year-old Chavis (.259 / .330 / .465) had some ups and downs in his first season, he became the mainstay of a team in the running and leads the rookies of the American League with 52 RBIs. Before Chavis, the first Red Sox player with at least 16 homers in a first season of MLB was Ellis Burks, who had 20 in 1987. Chavis' Grand Slam was the first by a rookie in Boston since Mookie Betts in 2014.

Chavis expected to have an impact as fast?

"Yes, sorry," said Chavis. "I'm confident in what I'm capable of doing, not arrogantly, if I was not confident I would not be there, I think that trust in baseball is at the rendezvous with things The most important ones.In entering the season, I think it's better to set the standards or expectations a bit too high rather than set them too low, because you sit there like, complacent.My standards and my expectations are rather high, I'm surprised, sorry. "

After the match, Chavis recovered the baseball from the fan who grabbed him monster seats. Jahmai Webster, NESN reporter, for trading an exchange in which Chavis took a photo with the viewer and the group he was with so he could play baseball. But it is likely that baseball will be in a package intended for his mother's home in Georgia in a short time.

"Yes, of course, it was great," Chavis told Webster, who picked up the ball on his behalf before the end of the match. "Mom is not here for that one, so I'll have to send it to him."

Dorothy Nugent, Chavis's mother, has been present at many of her biggest moments of the season, including her first MLB tour and the two huge bullets that he shot in London against the Yankees. Where was she on Monday?

"She has to work and everything," said Chavis.

Chavis knows the feeling. He works at his own job and will not stop anytime soon. Most of his work – especially at this stage – is about constant adjustments.

"It's a work in progress," Chavis said. "It's not one of those things where I'm going to be perfect overnight, or something like that." That's part of the game, but [I] I would say that I'm happy with the way things are going, but it's not something that I'm going to be regulated with or something like that. There is still work to be done. "