Jac Caglianone ties NCAA record with HR in 9th straight game for Florida
Jac Caglianone’s power stroke knows no limits, and Florida’s dynamic first baseman and pitcher delivered a touch of history Friday night!
Entering Friday’s game, Caglianone was riding a streak of 8 straight games with a home run. His 8th straight game was Thursday’s series opener vs. Vanderbilt with an opposite-field shot to left.
Facing the Commodores again, Caglianone started the second game of the series 0-for-2 but came back around in the 6th inning with Vanderbilt leading 3-1. “Jactani” delivered, smashing a drive deep into the night beyond the right field fence.
The drive came off the bat at a blistering 109 mph and was projected at 401 feet:
NINE-straight games with a homer! ?
Cags TIES the all-time NCAA record! #GoGators // ? ESPN2 pic.twitter.com/yFCRKsRD0C
— Florida Gators Baseball (@GatorsBB) April 20, 2024
Caglianone’s blast ties Tyler Bosetti of Nevada (2021) for the most consecutive games with a home run at 9. The only other players with a streak of at least 8 games are Duke’s Ryan Jackson and Georgia Tech’s Andy Bruce (1991).
As Caglianone chases history, his stock to be the No. 1 overall pick in the MLB Draft continues to grow. He’s now hitting .453 with 15 home runs vs. lefties according to the ESPN broadcast, and he’s slugging an otherworldly 1.156 against lefties.
Can Caglianone set the outright record in Saturday’s series finale? Stay tuned!
Jac Caglianone can hit all the home runs he wants but it won’t make any difference because the rest of this team flat out su€ks
The rest of the team may as well be cut and told to go find a junior college to go play for if they can find one that will have them
Nobody can pitch, Jac Caglianone can hit home runs every now and then but when they need a base hit forget it
How many times lately has Florida left the bases loaded with no outs and then end up looking like the keystone cops trying to swing a bat
I think Scully is getting fed up with some of these losers and I would imagine that before long some of them will be told to get some experience using the portal
But in the meantime this team is the epitome of pathetic
I see you’re as supportive of your baseball team as football. Nobody needs fans like you.
Just appreciate what he’s doing! It’s impressive! Although I don’t follow your team, I’m certain the rest of the team isn’t tanking their season either. Baseball is a fickle game. Who knows, they might turn it around!
The guy isn’t a Gator fan. He’s a troll that gave himself away many times over. Most of us just ignore the tool.
What a pathetic fool this idiot is
To tie the record for consecutive games with a homer… and a chance to break it today (while also pitching) in the same week as hitting the longest home run ever recorded is just beyond belief. Even more stunning…you can’t tell where some of these shots land because they disappear into the night!
Congrats to Jac. That’s an amazing accomplishment. He could use some help today so UF can salvage a win from all of this. Getting swept would not be good for UF’s post season hopes. The SEC may be deeper and stronger than it’s ever been.
Must be frustrating for him.
Gotta be. He’s doing all he can but one guy can’t carry a team, even when he’s their best hitter and pitcher.
He should have hit the portal after last year and got himself on a good team.
He thought he was on a good team. UF was #2 in the preseason poll. Definitely hasn’t worked out that way. LSU is in the same situation. Preseason 4 to unranked.
Perfect example that Georgia fan knows nothing about baseball. Like marine said, not only did he think he was on a good team, all of college baseball thought the same
thing. UGA fool has lot to learn
Guess they were all wrong.
either that bait was too obvious from jtf, or the uf faithful have already turned the page from this disappointing season and aren’t even clicking the uf baseball articles anymore.
only Realcojones, but i do enjoy their back and forth.
What postseason hopes? To play in the postseason you need more than one pitcher