Perhaps all it took was the turn of a page, when the calendar flipped from April to May. During that first month of the season, Rougned Odor was a near-liability at the plate, batting .180. But when that page flipped, so did his season, becoming a sparkplug and energizer for a team that’s slightly surging.
Take May 1, for instance, when Odor stepped in against the Boston Red Sox and launched his first home run of the season. There were his two walk-off hits, one a blast on May 20 and another a dribbler two days later against the Tampa Bay Rays. And now on Saturday, at Fenway Park against the Red Sox once more, Odor continued what has been a resurgent month.
The second baseman strode in with two runners on in the third inning and sent a ball sailing off his bat to deep right field, a three-run homer that was the main contribution in Baltimore’s 4-2 win to split the doubleheader.
