Power hitters have been long as described as being players who have some pop in their bat. That phrase doesn’t do justice to what happens when the likes of Saints catcher Jair Camargo gets all of a baseball. Camargo filled CHS Field with that unmistakable sound on Sunday afternoon with a tape-measure home run that helped propel the Saints to a 4-3 win over the Gwinnett Stripers.
The Saints trailed 3-2 in the sixth inning when Camargo led off the bottom of the inning with a drive to center field that carried over the batter’s eye. The ball traveled an estimated 450 feet. Chris Williams followed with his ninth homer of the season and third in three games to put the Saints in front to stay.
Like Williams, Camargo has had his struggles at the plate this season. He came into the game with a .217 batting average, having gone 1 for 16 in the series.
“It’s been a while,” Camargo said of his sixth home run of the season for the Saints. “I’ve been trying to get my timing back, get my confidence back. I can’t lie, it’s been a little frustrating for me.
Obviously, I’ve been in this situation before at this level — at the beginning of the year. “So, just trying to figure stuff out, trying to have conversations.” While Camargo didn’t claim to have called his shot, he did say that something clicked on Saturday that made him feel like good things were coming.
“The at-bat that got me going was my last at-bat (which resulted in a walk),” he said. “It was a gre.