The Sydney-born Bazzana<\/a> has made an impression since he was promoted to the majors by Cleveland in late May.<\/p>\n![\"Bazzana](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f7885f4c977f0c0f6d2f9c7d75298f2722e4c99f8f294dec5be59c241e2731ee.png\")
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Bazzana scores another homer.\u00a0MLB<\/p>\n
Earlier in the week, the 23-year-old tallied a career-high four RBIs to help the Guardians beat the New York Yankees,\u00a09-4.<\/p>\n
Cleveland won its first two games against the Yankees in the teams\u2019 just-completed series but mustered just two hits in a 2-1 setback to close the series.<\/p>\n
Against the Rangers on Saturday morning AEST, Bazzana delivered his first home run to start a game.<\/p>\n
Bazzana\u2019s blast had a 156km\/h exit velocity and landed in the right-field seats to give Cleveland an early lead in the series opener.<\/p>\n
But it wasn\u2019t enough to hold off Texas as they came back to score a 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n
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Bazzana runs to first base during the fifth inning of a game against the Texas Rangers.\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n
As a squad, the Guardians recorded just two hits, not including Bazzana\u2019s three and Austin Hedges\u2019 two.<\/p>\n
Even though they have a young roster, the Guardians hold a 1.5-game lead over the second-place Chicago White Sox in the division.<\/p>\n
And the No.1 pick\u2019s form has given the team a significant boost. <\/p>\n
Following the loss to the Rangers, he improved to 13-for-41 (.317) in 11 games in the lead off role. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 Australian Travis Bazzana\u00a0continues to impress in his debut Major League Baseball season, scoring a home run in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-718438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}