Dickerson hits 2 homers in Rays’ win
Published 11:25 am Thursday, June 9, 2016
Tampa Bay’s Corey Dickerson, the former Brookhaven Academy star, busted a slump in a big way Wednesday, crushing a pair of solo homeruns for the fourth multi-homer game of his career.
His Rays won 6-3 over the D-backs.
“Honestly, I just did everything I used to do back when I played with the Rockies,” Dickerson told MLB.com. “I decided to just be me — don’t manipulate my stance, don’t manipulate my hands, don’t do anything different. Go up there and just think about seeing the baseball and let my natural ability take over.”
Dickerson batted .299 with 39 home runs in his first three seasons in the Majors, all with the Rockies. In his only full season in 2014, he batted .312 with 24 home runs in 131 games. Since he was traded to Tampa Bay in January, he has 11 home runs, already surpassing his 2015 total, MLB.com reported.