After his sixth season as the shortstop for St. Luke’s Episcopal in Mobile in 2018, Jeremiah Jackson was named Alabama’s Mr. Baseball, won the Perfect Game/Rawlings National High School Player of the Year and got picked by the Los Angeles Angels in the second round of Major League Baseball’s annual draft.

But as the 2025 baseball season started, Jackson was on his third MLB organization and had never played higher than Double-A in the minor leagues.

On Tuesday night in the Baltimore Orioles’ 6-2 victory over the San Diego Padres, Jackson homered for the third time in the past four games and extended his MLB hitting streak to 13 games.

Since making his big-league debut on Aug. 1, Jackson has a .333 batting average and a .539 slugging percentage.

“It’s really just been having good at-bats,” Jackson said after homering in Baltimore’s 4-3 victory over the Padres on Monday night. “Trying to see something over the heart of the plate that I can handle. I’m not trying to do too much and just try to help the team win and do my job. …

“It’s just about being consistent, stacking good days, having good at-bats, just trying to find the barrel and do a job.”

On Saturday, Jackson hit a 97-mph sinker from San Francisco Giants right-hander Carson Seymour 390 feet in the Orioles’ 11-1 victory for the second home run of his MLB career. The first came on Aug. 23 in his 18th game.

On Monday, Jackson hit the first offering from the Padres’ Adrian Morejon – an 88-mph slider – 429 feet. The only other home run yielded by Morejon in 63.1 innings this season was hit by Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who leads the Major Leagues with 51 four-baggers in 2025.

On Tuesday, Jackson hit an 83-mph sweeper from San Diego starter Yu Darvish 372 feet for the first run of the interleague game.

Before reaching the Orioles, Jackson played in 45 games for the Chesapeake Baysox of the Double-A Eastern League and 40 games for the Norfolk Tides of the Triple-A International League this season. He had a .377 batting average with 11 home runs, nine stolen bases and a .673 slugging percentage for the Tides when he was called up in his seventh minor-league season.

Jackson was in his second season with the Rocket City Trash Pandas of the Double-A Southern League when the Angels traded him to the New York Mets in 2023. After Jackson hit .205 with 19 home runs in 122 games for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies of the Eastern League in 2024, the Mets released him. He signed with Baltimore in November.

Jackson had his first four-RBI game in the big leagues on Saturday, and his second three-hit game came on Monday.

“It’s a tough game,” Jackson said. “I don’t think any game’s easy, especially in baseball, no matter what the level is. Facing really good arms.”

With the Orioles, Jackson has started 18 games in right field, four at third base and three at designated hitter. In the minor leagues, Jackson had started 271 games at shortstop, 118 at second base, 85 at third base, 26 in left field, 14 in center field and only seven in right field.

In his first MLB game in right, Jackson dropped a flyball. But he’s been working to get accustomed to the position.

“Not much outfield in the minors in my career,” Jackson said, “so to be able to come up here in the big leagues and learn and produce in the outfield has been awesome. Couldn’t do it without them, (first-base coach Anthony) Sanders especially. We’re out there a lot every day working, trying to get better. (Orioles manager) Tony (Mansolino) for trusting me, putting me out there in the lineup and letting my bat be there and have the opportunity, so, yeah, I’m very thankful.”

While Jackson has a 13-game hitting streak overall, he has an 18-game hitting streak when in the starting lineup. Jackson told Matt Weyrich of the Baltimore Sun that his grandfather, Mike, his first coach back at Mims Park in Little League, still had his eye on the big-leaguer’s game.

“Even now, he still coaches me a little bit,” Jackson said. “He’s kept it pretty similar, pretty same. Keeps the basics the basics, keeps things routine. It’ll be little tweaks like, ‘Hey, your hands are too low,’ or ‘You’re lifting the bat too early in the swing,’ and just little things like that. Stuff that he notices.”

The Orioles close their series at San Diego at 3:10 p.m. CDT Wednesday.

“We’re hungry,” Jackson said of Baltimore, which at 63-76 is 10 games out of the American League’s last wild-card spot with 23 games to play. “We want to win games, and it’s been fun to be a part of it and kind of just jell with the team and do my job.”

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on X at @AMarkG1.

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