Yankees' Aaron Hicks pulls off rare feat with inside-outside two-HR night

Tom Gatto

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Yankees' Aaron Hicks pulls off rare feat with inside-outside two-HR night image

UPDATE 2: Turns out the inside-outside feat is a rare one:

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Aaron Hicks gave the Yankees an early lead Friday against the Tigers with an inside-the-park home run.

Hicks drove a Mike Fiers pitch off the out-of-town scoreboard in deep right-center field at Comerica Park in the second inning. The ball caromed hard past Tigers center fielder Leonys Martin, who retrieved it in straightaway center field.

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Gary Sanchez, who was on second when the ball was hit, scored ahead of Hicks, who reached third base just as Sanchez was crossing home plate.

The homer was Hicks' first of the season.

UPDATE: Hicks now has two home runs this season. He went deep over the right-center field wall, again vs. Fiers, in the sixth inning.

As impressive as that clout was, Hicks was more stoked about the homer that didn't leave the yard.

"Yeah, I liked the first [homer better]. It was a lot more exciting," Hicks said after the game, per MLB.com. "Once you're rounding that third bag there, it's kinda fun to see if you can make it or not."

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Tom Gatto joined The Sporting News as a senior editor in 2000 after 12 years at The Herald-News in Passaic, N.J., where he served in a variety of roles including sports editor, and a brief spell at APBNews.com in New York, where he worked as a syndication editor. He is a 1986 graduate of the University of South Carolina.