{"id":645680,"date":"2026-03-27T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645680\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T01:57:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:57:00","slug":"geraldo-perdomo-goes-yard-to-drive-in-1st-diamondbacks-runs-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/645680\/","title":{"rendered":"Geraldo Perdomo goes yard to drive in 1st Diamondbacks runs of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shortstop Geraldo Perdomo put the Arizona Diamondbacks on the board for the 2026 season, clubbing a two-run shot in the fourth inning of Thursday\u2019s Opening Day matchup with the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo fell behind 0-2 against Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto before ripping a fastball to right field to take a 2-0 lead. Corbin Carroll singled ahead of him to lead off the inning.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Geraldo Perdomo strikes first for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dbacks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Dbacks<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aCpPJOHV5S\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/aCpPJOHV5S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/2037340036731936874?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">March 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a 398-foot shot that left the bat at 102 mph.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo is coming off a career year in which he reached 20 home runs and 100 RBIs, which had not been done by a Diamondbacks shortstop before.<\/p>\n<p>The Diamondbacks opted to bat him <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/mlb\/arizona-diamondbacks\/opening-day-lineup\/3615741\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">third in the lineup<\/a> to open the season, behind Ketel Marte and Carroll. Manager Torey Lovullo wanted the pop of Marte atop the lineup with Perdomo\u2019s quality at-bat skills in the three-hole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Marte) can create a very uneven environment for a starting pitcher,\u201d Lovullo said. \u201cBetween he and Corbin, I feel like they can be go swingers. And Perdomo\u2019s there at number three to protect them a little bit because he can throw up a five, seven-pitch at-bat as good as anybody we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The switch-hitter had not homered in a Cactus League game or the World Baseball Classic, so perhaps he was due.<\/p>\n<p>He also entered the game 2-for-10 against Yamamoto, but he matched that hit total with a single in the first inning and the long ball.<\/p>\n<p>Perdomo has the rare ability to handle two strikes, as he finished sixth in MLB last season with a .734 OPS in two-strike counts, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/leaders\/splits-leaderboards?splitArr=62,70,71,65&amp;splitArrPitch=&amp;autoPt=true&amp;splitTeams=false&amp;statType=player&amp;statgroup=2&amp;startDate=2025-03-01&amp;endDate=2025-10-01&amp;players=&amp;filter=&amp;groupBy=season&amp;wxTemperature=&amp;wxPressure=&amp;wxAirDensity=&amp;wxElevation=&amp;wxWindSpeed=&amp;position=B&amp;sort=10,1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">FanGraphs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Catch the rest of the action on 98.7 and the Arizona Sports app.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES \u2014 Shortstop Geraldo Perdomo put the Arizona Diamondbacks on the board for the 2026 season, clubbing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-645680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116298660964424552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}