Top Red Sox prospect Roman Anthony hits first MLB home run

Roman Anthony checked disconnected an important container Monday successful his young MLB career.

The highly touted Boston Red Sox halfway fielder went heavy successful the apical of the archetypal inning for the archetypal location tally of his career. Anthony smashed a 96 mph sinker from Seattle Mariners pitcher Logan Gilbert.

The shot went 391 feet and gave Boston an aboriginal 1-0 pb arsenic it looks to triumph its sixth crippled successful a row.

Roman Anthony goes heavy for his archetypal vocation location run! pic.twitter.com/nRORmnyxrC

The Red Sox called up Anthony a week ago, 2 days aft the 21-year-old hit a 497-foot location run for Triple-A Worcester. Deemed the No. 1 imaginable successful baseball, helium had 10 location runs successful 58 games with Worcester.

But since being called up, Anthony has struggled, batting .059 and signaling 3 RBIs heading into Monday. His lone MLB deed came successful his 2nd crippled past Tuesday. Anthony didn't grounds different deed until his location tally Monday.

Anthony's location tally comes a time aft Boston traded Rafael Devers successful a blockbuster trade to the San Francisco Giants.