Jac jack: Royals' Caglianone belts first MLB HR

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Jac Caglianone has his archetypal vocation location tally conscionable shy of 2 weeks aft his debut with the Kansas City Royals, and a time aft the 22-year-old imaginable sat retired of a large league crippled for the archetypal time.

Caglianone won a lefty-lefty matchup by pulling a 95.5 mph fastball from Jacob Latz into the Texas Rangers bullpen successful right-center tract to springiness the Royals a 3-0 pb successful the 2nd inning Thursday.

Vinnie Pasquantino deed a two-run changeable disconnected Texas starter Shawn Armstrong successful the archetypal inning of a bullpen crippled for the Rangers.

The sixth wide prime successful past year's amateur draught retired of Florida, Caglianone went 0 for 5 successful his large league debut astatine St. Louis connected June 3. His mean was astatine .196 aft going 0 for 4 successful the opener of a bid astatine Texas and sitting retired the 2nd game.

Caglianone, who played his archetypal six games connected the roadworthy earlier making his location debut against the New York Yankees, swung astatine Latz's 2-2 transportation supra the onslaught zone, and pointed toward halfway tract arsenic helium rounded 2nd basal aft his 387-foot drive.

The 6-foot-5 Caglianone deed 15 homers successful 50 games combined with Double-A Northwest Arkansas and Triple-A Omaha earlier getting called up.