Leadoff batter Christian Franklin electrified the Pershing Park crowd with a home run to straight away center field in his first at bat of the summer and the Foresters rolled to an 8-0 victory over the San Luis Obispo Blues on Thursday night.
Despite piling up victories thus far this season the Foresters have lacked power at the plate having only hit two home runs as a team coming into Thursday’s contest, but Franklin set a different tone that seemed to reverberate throughout the team.
“It felt really good, especially to get here with a new
team, new guys, kind of a new environment and just to lead off with a homerun
was good to show these guys I can help contribute to the team in any way,” said
Franklin of his leadoff homerun.