PHOENIX — Arizona Diamondbacks All-Star Corbin Carroll has homered in three straight games for the first time, and he reached 25 for the season on Saturday to match a career high.
He hit 25 home runs as a rookie in 2023, doing so in his 147th game of the year. This time, he reached No. 25 in only 100 games played.
Carroll crushed a splitter from Rockies starter Bradley Blalock that just hung over the plate in the fifth inning of a 6-5 walk-off win on Saturday. It was the game-tying shot, which he smoked 108 mph off the bat and a projected 437 feet.
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All three of his home runs on this streak have traveled at least 424 feet.
“ I feel like the homers are a byproduct of what I’m trying to do and not the be-all, end-all,” Carroll said. “I’m not trying to get too fixated on that. Just wanna hit the ball hard and help the team.”
“It’s a major accomplishment,” manager Torey Lovullo said. “What he does on the baseball field, it never surprises me. He’s always on a search to get better and do special things for us. … He’s sitting at 25, but he’s gonna come in here tomorrow like he’s got zero. That’s his mindset.”
Carroll nearly hit a second home run on Saturday, as he skied a high fastball 379 feet to the warning track. According to Statcast, that ball would have been a home run in 16 of 30 MLB ballparks.
He has been a different hitter in many ways than his rookie season. For starters, 40% of his hits in 2023 went for extra bases. This year, that number is up to 60%, a reason why his stolen bases are down.
Carroll stole 54 bags in 2023, becoming the first rookie with a 25-50 campaign. He’s using that speed to zip around the bases in another way, as he is slugging .555 compared to a .501 mark as a rookie.
His strikeouts are also way up from 19% to 24.8%, and he is not hitting for average in the same way. He hit .285 in 2023 and .248 now.
On the other side, he is barreling up more baseballs (career high 15%), hitting them harder and through the air.
“ I’m just trying to help the team, kind of do what the situation asks for,” Carroll said. “If it’s play small ball, it’s play small ball. If I have the opportunity to take a shot, then great.”
It is a continuation from the power surge he went on during the final two months of last year. After battling through a well-documented struggle through the All-Star break, Carroll hit 15 home runs in his final 56 games, a 43-homer pace. He entered the 2025 season having made changes to his set up, raising his hands out in front of him.
He said the adjustments have felt comfortable and natural this season.
“ I’m happy with the overall body of work, and I think there’s lots of room for improvement there, too,” Carroll said. “Just want to keep using these last two months to keep moving in the right way and keep learning.”
Additionally, Carroll said his hand has felt better over the past three series. He missed more than two weeks on the injured list with a fractured wrist suffered in late June, which he was able to return from before it healed completely so long as he could manage the pain.
He said there had been some lingering pain, but it has felt much better lately.
Carroll is the first player in the major leagues with 25 home runs and 14 triples (league-leading) in a season since Charlie Blackmon in 2017. Jimmy Rollins is the only other player to have done so in the 21st Century, as he accomplished the feat during his MVP run of 2007.
Only three players — Rollins and Hall of Famers Willie Mays and Jim Bottomley — have ever finished a season with 30 home runs and 20 triples, and Carroll is positioned to go for that shortlist.
