Indians' Bradley Zimmer joins small membership with homer off brother, Royals' Kyle Zimmer

There’s going to be some big-timing happening within the Zimmer family over the vacations.

On Monday, Indians outfielder Bradley Zimmer homered off his brother, Royals reliever Kyle Zimmer, to place Cleveland up 7-3 over Kansas Metropolis.

Based on the Elias Sports activities Bureau, it was solely the fourth time in MLB historical past {that a} participant hit a house run in opposition to his brother.

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It wasn’t a wall-scraper that Bradley hit off his brother, both. Based on Baseball Savant, the ball left his bat at an exit velocity of 107.2 mph and traveled 408 toes down the suitable discipline nook. The house run got here off an 84.5 mph slider from Kyle.

That was Bradley’s eighth house run of the season, whereas it was the seventh allowed by Kyle.

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The 2 brothers have had fairly the baseball historical past. Each have been first-round picks as Kyle was taken fifth general by the Royals in 2012, whereas Bradley was drafted twenty first general. Each have been drafted out of the College of San Francisco.

Kyle took longer to achieve the majors as he handled accidents in his minor league profession earlier than he debuted in 2019. In his profession, he has appeared in 80 video games and has a profession ERA of 5.32. 

Bradley debuted in 2017 with Cleveland, however has performed in solely 257 video games in his profession. He owns a profession slash line of .224/.311/.342 with 19 house runs and 37 stolen bases.

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Beforehand, Kyle had struck out Bradley as soon as and walked him one other time.

Earlier within the yr, Andrew and Austin Romine grew to become the sixteenth set of brothers to seem as a battery in a sport.

Bradley joined George Stovall homering off Jesse Stovall in 1904, Rick Ferrell launching one off Wes Ferrell in 1933 and Joe Niekro homering in opposition to Phil Niekro in 1976.