Anthony Rizzo

MLB fans had plenty of thoughts about Yankee Stadium following Rizzo's three-homer game.

He just saw the opportunity, as a power-hitting lefty, to play there. He didn’t design the stadium dimensions. The Orioles broadcast practically had a meltdown over it.

It was quite the night for Parkland's own Anthony Rizzo Tuesday night with the New York Yankees.

His first home run came in the first inning of Jordan Lyles and drove in three runs. “Obviously a first-time game. Rizzo homered three times in a game against the Baltimore Orioles for the first time in his career.

New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo hit three home runs in Tuesday's 12-8 win over the Baltimore Orioles.

- Marked his 20th career multi-HR game and his first since 4/18/21 vs. Please consider supporting us with a subscription. Toronto (also 3 HR). - His three-run HR in the third inning gave the Yankees the lead ... since joining the Yankees, seven of his 16 HR have either tied the game (three) or gave the Yankees the lead (four). The only older one was Babe Ruth, who had his first on May 21, 1930, at 35 years and 104 days old.” - Was the sixth Yankees first baseman (ninth time) to hit 3 HR in a game, joining Mark Teixiera (3 HR on 5/8/10 at Boston), Tony Clark (3 HR on 8/28/04 at Toronto), Tino Martinez (3 HR on 4/2/97 at Seattle), Johnny Mize (9/15/50 at Detroit) and Lou Gehrig (four times: 4 HR on 6/3/32 at Philadelphia-AL; 3 HR on 5/22/30 at Philadelphia-AL-Game 2; 3 HR on 5/4/29 at Chicago-AL; 3 HR on 6/23/27 at Boston).

A few days after the lockout ended which lifted the restrictions on transactions, the New York Yankees moved to retain Anthony Rizzo.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone's take on Anthony Rizzo's three-homer game against the Orioles will make New York fans very excited.

“I think he will be someone who should be able to take advantage of that porch,” Boone continued. Given that the veteran first baseman is on pace for a career-high 62 percent pull rate this season per FanGraphs, Yankees fans should expect Rizzo to take advantage of that short porch more often. Rizzo’s incredible performance drew an exciting take from Yankees manager Aaron Boone, as reported by Lindsey Adler of The Athletic.

Yankee Stadium has always been known for its short right field porch. That plays directly into left-handed power hitters' hands, or any hitter that.

The 2016 World Series champion and MVP candidate is back to his old self and is mashing homers like he used to early on in his tenure with the Chicago Cubs. In his first full season with the Yanks, Rizzo is looking like his old self, a guy capable of winning an MVP Award. Yankee Stadium might just be the perfect place for a guy like Rizzo as he looks to regain his stroke.

New York Yankees slugger Anthony Rizzo is having a hell of a start, capped by his three-home run game on Tuesday against the Orioles.

But Rizzo, 32, is also firmly in his prime, something the rest of the league seems to have forgotten. Both Olson and Freeman are in their primes, slugging from the left side for two of the National League’s best lineups. He arrived from Chicago and energized the Bombers in a hotly-contested, well-pitched road series in Miami, then returned home and tested positive for COVID almost immediately.

New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who was signed as a cheaper, lower-profile alternative to Freddie Freeman, is leading the major leagues in ...

Anthony Rizzo joined Yankees' legend Babe Ruth in the record books with his 3 home run night in New York's victory over the Orioles.

It speaks to how intelligent of a hitter he truly is. He wanted to hit the pitch before it broke away. He points out an adjustment that Rizzo made during his first at-bat.

New York Yankees first baseman Anthony Rizzo hit three home runs on Tuesday night, but that doesn't tell the entire story.

In doing so, he moved up half a foot as he expected a changeup on the inside part of the plate. Rizzo was feeling himself so much that he made adjustments without any help from a hitting instructor in the middle of an at-bat. Against the Orioles on Tuesday, Rizzo hit three home runs, becoming the second-oldest Yankees to do so.

Rizzo hit three homers to right field Tuesday, taking advantage of the short porch at Yankee Stadium.

Rizzo got three trips around the bases and a curtain call on Tuesday night. For Rizzo and the Yankees, who homered a total of five times in a 12-8 win over Baltimore, the home runs counted all the same. The Yankees got a win. Since the start of the 2018 season, the Yankees have had 6,613 plate appearances by a left-handed hitter — the fifth-lowest total among MLB teams in that time. For nearly six seconds on Tuesday, everyone at Yankee Stadium watched as a ball Rizzo hit in the third inning just kept drifting toward the right field wall. After Tuesday’s three-homer performance, Rizzo is now the home run leader across MLB with eight dingers in 73 plate appearances. Aaron Hicks and Marwin Gonzalez are switch-hitters, giving the Yankees four options for left-handed plate appearances on their current roster. Rizzo played the batted ball probabilities game and won. Outfielder Brett Gardner had to keep playing the role of designated lefty. He homered three times against the Orioles on Tuesday night, each batted ball winding up in right field with a meager average distance of 350 feet per home run. For a few years, the Yankees allowed their lineup to be overwhelmingly right-handed, they hardly emphasized infield defense, and they valued power-at-all-costs over a good contact-heavy approach at the plate. “I think he will be someone who should be able to take advantage of that porch,” Boone continued.