It's time for another Topps Now post.
June 11, 2025
On a personal note: June 11 is my anniversary. As of this year, my wife and I have been married 14 years. On June 11, 2025, uber-rookie Marcelo Mayer celebrated my anniversary by having his first career multi-home run game. Playing third base in place of the injured Alex Bregman, Mayer connected for a solo bomb off former Red Sox pitcher Zack Littell in the second inning and then victimized him again for a solo shot in the fourth. They were the only two hits for Mayer that day, but helped power Boston to a 4-3 victory. Jarren Duran and Abraham Toro also homered helping Walker Buehler to a victory.
June 13, 2025
There were lots of reasons to snag this one. First of all, it is my first card of Carlos Narvaez, who seems to have wrestled the starting catcher job from Connor Wong, primarily due to his elite defense, but he has been hitting well as well. Secondly, it is my first card featuring the new City Connect uniforms. They still wear the yellows, but this is the new uniform, and I like them. Third off, it is celebrating Narvaez walking off the Yankees with a wall ball in extra innings. Garrett Crochet had a shutout going into the ninth, but the Red Sox had only scored one run on a second-inning single by Ceddanne Rafaela. Crochet gave up a solo homer to Aaron Judge, which had the media going crazy (seriously I am sick of the media coverage of Judge). But then in the tenth, Narvaez scraped a ball off the wall that scored David Hamilton.
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