Florida junior pitcher and first baseman Jac Caglianone tied an NCAA file on Friday evening after homering for a ninth straight recreation.
Caglianone hit his twenty third blast of the season for the Gators (19-9) within the prime of the sixth inning throughout their 5-2 loss to Vanderbilt (29-10).
Caglianone’s 401-foot blast tied the NCAA file set by Nevada’s Tyler Bosetti, who homered in 9 consecutive video games in 2021.
That house run additionally prolonged Caglianone’s on-base streak to 24 video games and his hitting streak to 17 video games.
“It is one thing we have by no means seen earlier than, truthfully,” mentioned Florida head coach Kevin O’Sullivan. “And we have had some actually good hitters during the last 16 or 17 years.”
Caglianone, a product of Tampa’s Plant Excessive College, which additionally produced Wade Boggs, Pete Alonso and Kyle Tucker, is one house run behind Georgia first baseman Charlie Condon for the NCAA lead.
Throughout the 2023 season, Caglianone, a preseason first-team All-American, set a faculty file with 33 homers.
Caglianone, who’s No. 5 on MLB.com’s prime 2024 draft prospects, can break the NCAA file on Saturday when the Gators wrap up their sequence in opposition to the Thirteenth-ranked Commodores.
It isn’t simply on the plate the place Caglianone makes an impression. As a pitcher the 21-year-old has a 4-0 file this season with 49 strikeouts in 39.1 innings.
As he tries to set the NCAA consecutive video games with a house run file, Caglianone will even be seeking to get it carried out on the mound as he is Saturday’s anticipated starter for the Gators.
