Beltran, Lucroy, Bruce, Reddick go 0-for-14 combined in debuts
A lot of talented, veteran hitters pulled on unfamiliar uniforms Tuesday night, having been dealt away in the hours and minutes leading up to Monday's non-waiver trade deadline.
None of them made a strong first impression.
In their respective debuts with their new clubs, Carlos Beltran, Jonathan Lucroy, Jay Bruce, and Josh Reddick went a combined 0-for-14 on Tuesday, posting a cumulative minus-0.195 win probability added in a series of uniformly underwhelming performances.
| Player | Team | Line | WPA | Game Rslt? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlos Beltran | TEX | 0-for-4, 2K | -.077 | L, 5-1 |
| Jay Bruce | NYM | 0-for-4, 2K | -.027 | W, 7-1 |
| Jonathan Lucroy | TEX | 0-for-2, BB, R | -.012 | L, 5-1 |
| Josh Reddick | LAD | 0-for-4 | -.079 | L, 7-3" |
Among them, Lucroy - who, like Beltran, was traded to Texas on Monday - was the only hitter to reach base (and, for obvious reasons, the only one to score a run), accounting for the Rangers' lone tally in a 5-1 loss to the division-leading Baltimore Orioles.
Beltran, who hit .304/.344/.546 with 22 homers in 99 games with the Yankees this season, went hitless with a pair of strikeouts in his four at-bats, marking just the third time this year that the 39-year-old has gone 0-for-4 while fanning multiple times.
On a "whirlwind day," meanwhile, Bruce was the lone member of the New York Mets' starting lineup not to record a hit in their 7-1 victory over the New York Yankees.
As for Reddick, the longtime Oakland A's fixture who supplanted Yasiel Puig in the Los Angeles Dodgers' outfield, he labored through his second 0-for-4 performance in as many games, having gone hitless in four at-bats in his final game in Oakland after going 18-for-55 (.327) over his previous 16 contests.