No. 1 Giants prospect and first baseman Bryce Eldridge sent a ball to Mars on Wednesday.
The 20-year-old, whom San Francisco selected No. 16 overall in the 2023 MLB Draft, broke a 2-2 tied game with a walk-off 406-foot, 105.5-mph home run to right field to give his River Cats a 3-2 win over the Las Vegas Aviators at Sutter Health Park on Wednesday.
There’s the mighty bat that caught the Giants’ eye two drafts ago and is worthy of the No. 18 spot — and place as the No. 1 first baseman — on MLB’s top-100 prospect list.
It was Eldridge’s 12th homer of 2025 and fifth over his 21 games with the River Cats. He also hit an absolute tank in Tuesday’s series-opening 8-0 win against the Aviators.
Eldridge now is slashing .231/.279/.474 with 18 hits and 19 RBI for the River Cats, and .263/.326/.493 with 55 hits and 40 RBI over 57 games between rookie ball, Double-A Richmond and Triple-A Sacramento.
The prospect has struggled in Triple-A and just recently returned from the moderate hamstring injury that kept him on the IL since June 24.
Perhaps his walk-off and current stretch of four hits in four games is the spark Eldridge, known for his power-hitting abilities at 6-foot-7 and 240 pounds, needs to return to the hitter who evidently outmatched Double-A competition.
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