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 | Wednesday, April 6th, 2022: Philadelphia's Taketo Goes Ballistic with 5 Hits What a day for Taisho Taketo of the Philadelphia Phillies! A 5-hit hitting spree! That doesn't happen every day! He ripped Colorado pitching apart at Citizens Bank Park and sparked the Phillies to a 13-3 victory. He wrote his name in the record books, finishing his special day 5 for 6. "I'm usually a first ball hitter," Taketo told BNN reporters in the postgame press conference. "I think pitchers think batters are going to let the first one go by. I never do. I've always found that it's better to pull the trigger early in the count. Pitchers get real nasty when they get ahead of you, so I try to avoid that." T. Taketo doubled in the 1st, singled in the 3rd, hit a solo-shot off A. Garcia in the 4th, flied out in the 6th, doubled in the 8th and hit a solo-shot off P. Corbett in the 9th. |
