Carlos Pena who had been slumping hit a home run in his fifth consecutive game and he has hit six home runs in those five games.
Carlos Pena hit a home run in his fifth consecutive game while breaking a Rays franchise home run record of 129 home runs, which had been held by Aubrey Huff until last night.
Pena has hit more home runs than Alex Rodriguez in the last four years but had been slumping until recently. As recently as June 5 he had hit only eight homers in his first 55 games, but now he has hit six in his last five games for a total of 14.
Pena had experienced an anemic month of May with three home runs and nine runs batted in, while hitting .120 and slugging .250 during the month.
He is currently hitting .196 but is hitting .313 for the month of June while slugging .885. T ...
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