Omar Cruz Strokes 3 Home Runs
<Omar Cruz:player#2603> went yard three times in a <Bradenton Bucs:team#69> victory over the <Miami Beach Expos:team#106> at Pelican Park today.

"I was in a groove," he said. "Every pitch they tossed up there looked like a grapefruit."

For the day, the <Bradenton:team#69> third baseman went 3-for-5 against <Miami Beach:team#106> with 5 RBIs and 4 runs scored in a brilliant display of power hitting that led the Bucs to the 17-8 win.

"I tell you what. I'm shocked because I didn't think that last ball had enough to get out," he told BNN reporters in the clubhouse following the game. "I thought it was just going to be a long out."

<Omar Cruz:player#2603> hit a two-run home run off <Joe Hixson:player#3791> in the 1st, struck out in the 2nd, grounded out in the 4th, hit a two-run home run off <Evan Tambor:player#5694> in the 5th, hit a solo-shot off <Nate Gibbs:player#12142> in the 7th, walked in the 9th and walked in the 9th.

Thus far this season in 72 games Cruz is batting .261 with 10 home runs, 36 RBIs and 63 runs scored. He has 83 hits in 318 at-bats.