Red Sox power-hitting Blaze Jordan crushed his fifth homer this month for Double-A Portland on Saturday. He helped the Sea Dogs win 12-4 over Richmond.
The 20-year-old Jordan is heating up after a slow start following his promotion from High-A Greenville on July 14. He is in the midst of a seven-game hitting streak, going 10-for-27 (.370) with two homers, one double, five RBIs, three runs, two walks and four strikeouts. He has recorded at least one hit in nine of his past 10 games.
Jordan is slugging .500 with five homers, three doubles and 18 RBIs in August.
Jordan, at the time of his promotion, was leading the High-A South Atlantic League in batting average (.324). He ranked third in slugging percentage (.533) and fourth in OPS (.918). He was 12th in the league in on-base percentage (.385). Jordan has pointed to walk-to-strikeout ratio as the stat he values the most. He has a low 14.3% strikeout percentage and 7.8% walk percentage.
He has 18 homers, 27 doubles, one triple, 79 RBIs and an .859 OPS in 106 games combined between Greenville and Portland.
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Other strong Red Sox minor league performances Saturday:
~ Grant Gambrell earned the win in his Triple-A debut for Worcester. He went 5 ⅔ scoreless innings at Rochester. He allowed two hits, four walks and five strikeouts. The righty missed the 2022 season after undergoing five surgeries to remove a benign tumor from his calcaneus, the heel bone. He threw 46 sinkers, topping out at 93.3 mph, per Baseball Savant. He mixed in 23 changeups, 15 curveballs, seven sliders, four cutters and two four-seam fastballs.
~ Ceddanne Rafaela went 3-for-5 with two doubles, three RBIs and two strikeouts in Worcester’s win. The 22-year-old is batting .314 with a .371 on-base percentage, .613 slugging percentage, .984 OPS, 13 homers, 13 doubles, three triples, 40 RBIs and 38 runs in 47 games for Worcester.
~ Brainer Bonaci, Nick Yorke, Chase Meidroth, Nathan Hickey and Tyler Dearden had two hits each for Portland. Both Hickey’s hits were doubles.
~ Luis Perales, a 20-year-old hard-throwing right-handed prospect, allowed just two hits over 5 scoreless innings for High-A Greenville. He struck out five and walked three. He has a 3.53 ERA and has held opponents to a .218 batting average in 19 starts between Low-A Salem and Greenville this season. Baseball America ranks him Boston’s top pitching prospect and No. 7 prospect overall.
