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“I got it decent, but I didn’t feel like I got all of it,” Melendez said.
“It was also my first time playing here this weekend so I wasn’t sure how the ball flies. I was super happy when it went over (the wall).”
Kansas City loaded the bases on three straight walks by Blake Treinen.
Melendez fouled off six straight pitches with a 2-2 count, but worked the count full when Treinen threw a cutter inside.
Treinen (2-1) went to the cutter again on the next pitch, but it was slightly elevated inside the strike zone as Melendez drove it over the right-field wall for his first career grand slam and a 5-2 lead.
According to Baseball Reference, it is only the second time since 1970 there has been a grand slam on a full count with at least 12 pitches in the at-bat.
In 2018, Mookie Betts cleared the bases for Boston on the 13th pitch against Toronto’s J.A. Happ.
The Cubs’ Gary Scott also had a grand slam on a 13-pitch, at-bat against Philadelphia’s Kyle Abbott in 1992, but that was on a 2-2 count.
