«He loves the spotlight and he’s very quiet about it.»
Just a few hours after earning his third All-Star nod, Rafael Devers validated his standing as one of baseball’s top sluggers on Sunday night against the Yankees.
The 27-year-old third baseman left his fingerprints all over Boston’s 3-0 win over the Yankees, crushing a pair of solo home runs in the seventh and ninth innings to lift Boston to yet another series win.
Devers has been a key cog in Boston’s lineup since arriving in 2017. But his knack for tormenting the Yankees further bolsters his value to the Red Sox.
The star third baseman has now homered 16 times at Yankee Stadium, with Devers now standing as the only player in Red Sox history to record three multi-homer games against the Yankees at the age of 27 or younger (7/23/21, 7/7/22, 7/7/24) — according to J.P. Long of the Red Sox.
