Rancho Cucamonga Quakes third baseman Jake Gelof was named to the California League's Monday week for a powerful sequence towards Stockton final week at dwelling earlier than rain swept via Saturday and Sunday. .
In 4 video games towards the Ports, Gelof had six hits in 13 at-bats, together with a triple on Tuesday, a double on Wednesday, and a house run on Thursday. Gelof for the week drove in seven runs, and in addition walked thrice, giving him a .529 on-base share for the week and a 1.453 OPS.
Gelof got here on at shortstop within the first inning of Saturday's sport, however that play was suspended by rain within the high of the third. However as an alternative of resuming that contest on Sunday, rain washed out that day as properly, canceling two video games.
With two video games postponed, and no return journey for Stockton to Rancho Cucamonga, there are not any make-up dates but deliberate, and there may not be.
In order that pop-out for Gelof doesn't rely towards his ledger, that means he nonetheless has a five-game hitting streak, and has reached base in every of his first seven video games to open the 2024 season.
The Dodgers drafted Gelof within the second spherical in 2023 out of Virginia, the place he was the college's all-time dwelling run hitter. After 4 video games within the Arizona Advanced League, Gelof final 12 months hit .225/.314/.433 with a 100 wRC+, 5 dwelling runs, eight doubles, and a triple in 30 video games for the Quakes.
This season, Gelof is hitting .320/.424/.560 with a 142 wRC+ and 12 RBI in seven video games. At 22, Gelof is the oldest hitter on a really younger group at Low-A Rancho Cucamonga, simply two and a half months older than first baseman Joe Vetrano, a fellow 2023 draftee.
