{"id":4073,"date":"2026-07-02T08:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4073"},"modified":"2026-07-02T08:05:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T08:05:27","slug":"rays-slugger-junior-caminero-becomes-youngest-player-since-at-least-1900-to-homer-in-six-straight-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4073","title":{"rendered":"Rays slugger Junior Caminero becomes youngest player since at least 1900 to homer in six straight games"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2014 Tampa Bay\u2019s Junior Caminero has become the youngest player since at least 1900 to homer in six straight games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4071\">Jaylen Brown for Paul George: 40 cents on the dollar, and one of the worst trades in Boston sports history<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Caminero hit a 425-foot shot to left off Kansas City Royals right-hander Seth Lugo in the first inning of the Rays\u2019 4-0 victory on Wednesday night for his 24th homer of the season. The Rays star will celebrate his 23rd birthday on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The youngest player before Caminero to homer in six straight games was Seattle\u2019s Ken Griffey Jr., who did it at the age of 23 in 1993.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>The only other players since 1900 to homer in as many as five consecutive games before their 23rd birthday were San Francisco\u2019s Jack Clark in 1978, Atlanta\u2019s Brian McCann in 2006 and Atlanta\u2019s Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr. in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Caminero becomes the first player to homer in six straight games since Rafael Devers did it for Boston in May 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4069\">Don Sweeney starts the Bruins\u2019 offseason shopping, but the list is still long<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Philadelphia\u2019s Kyle Schwarber, Detroit\u2019s Spencer Torkelson and the Chicago White Sox\u2019s Munetaka Murakami had all homered in five straight games this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Nationals get to Payton Tolle for six runs in three-plus innings, rout Red Sox in finale to take series<\/div>\n<p><span>The only other Tampa Bay player ever to go deep in six straight games was Carlos Pena in June 2010, according to Sportradar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Caminero has eight homers over his last six games. He began this stretch by going deep three times in a 13-2 victory over Kansas City on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4067\">Even shorthanded, the US men\u2019s team showed it was capable of delivering a knockout punch<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caminero becomes the first player to homer in six straight games since Rafael Devers did it for the Red Sox in May 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rays slugger Junior Caminero becomes youngest player since at least 1900 to homer in six straight games - 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