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Elly De La Cruz Has Arrived

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Elly De La Cruz just might be the most exciting player in baseball, and he hasn’t even been in the Major Leagues for a full month yet. While his performance has been turning heads, it’s his unique combination of power and speed that has infused the Cincinnati Reds with an energy that the city hasn’t seen in a long time. So today, Jeff Passan brings us the story of De La Cruz, tells us how real the hype is, and explains how he’s giving Reds fans something they haven’t had in more than a decade: hope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.6

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0:13.9

Jeff Pass, we've seen heralded rookies burst onto the scene in the major leagues before.

0:20.7

This goes back more than a century. But what we saw from the Cincinnati Reds, rookie,

0:25.8

Ellie, Della Cruz, what we've been seeing from him the last few weeks, this feels bigger.

0:33.8

This feels mantelask. Last Friday against the Braves. Tell us about that game and what

0:40.7

it suggests about his future. So Jeremy, he started that game in the second inning

0:49.4

with the double.

0:50.6

That is blitz to right centerfield.

0:56.6

Off the top of the wall.

0:59.6

And the crew storms up to second base.

1:02.6

And then as the script plays out, he follows the next inning with the two run home run.

1:10.6

In the air to right.

1:12.6

And come the fifth.

1:21.6

He gets a single one two.

1:25.6

Broke his back.

1:26.6

That's in the center base hit with Bill on the crane.

1:30.6

Damn our cross is a triple shot.

1:34.6

It was around baseball.

1:37.6

It was the sort of thing that was going around social media.

1:41.6

Hey, Ellie, Della Cruz is a triple shy of the cycle.

1:46.6

But Jeremy, there is a graveyard.

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