Parking inside hanging distance of a baseball facility typically comes with the assumed danger that your property may undergo harm from a hard-hit ball. However, the percentages weren’t in Cincinnati Reds pitcher Hunter Greene’s favor on Tuesday when a foul ball landed on the window of his luxurious automotive.
Greene’s Maybach was within the car parking zone of the Reds spring coaching grounds as he threw pitches to younger star participant Elly De La Cruz throughout a reside batting follow session.
The swap hitting De La Cruz was hitting from the left facet of the plate when he hit a foul ball into the car parking zone. The ball landed on the rear driver’s facet of Inexperienced’s high-priced SUV, leaving the window shattered.
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A Mercedes-Maybach GLS SUV often comes with a beginning value tage round $200,000. The value can improve based mostly on the trim and choices.
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Though it stays unclear who will in the end pay for the window restore, Greene does have a significantly greater wage than De La Cruz. The 24-year-old pitcher is within the midst of a six-year, $53 million contract with the Reds. De La Cruz, in the meantime, earned an estimated $720,000 throughout his rookie marketing campaign.
If De La Cruz is ready to construct on his spectacular first season, he’ll possible land a profitable long-term deal within the close to future.
Greene appeared to take the unlucky collection of occasions in stride, as he posed for an image with De La Cruz by the broken car.
De La Cruz appeared in 98 video games in his rookie season and completed the yr with 13 dwelling runs and 44 RBIs.
De La Cruz produced a number of spotlight reel worthy moments final yr as he helped breathe new life into the Reds. The highest baseball prospect burst onto the scene in June and managed to exceed expectations.
Throughout his first collection on the main league stage, he crushed a 92 mph fastball from pitcher Noah Syndergaard. The baseball landed greater than 450 ft away from dwelling plate. Throughout a July 2023 sport in opposition to the San Francisco Giants, De Le Cruz launched a 99.8 mph throw to dwelling plate as a base runner tried to attain a run.
“I knew on that throw I used to be going to have the ability to throw it as rapidly as doable,” De La Cruz mentioned by way of a translator after the sport. “I’m simply prepared each time to throw no matter is required.”
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