WACO, Texas — Tyce Armstrong hit three grand slams in his Baylor debut Friday night in the Bears' 15-2 season-opening victory over New Mexico State, becoming just the second college baseball player to accomplish that feat.
“I'm speechless,” Armstrong said. “It's the coolest thing I've ever been a part of.”
He joins Louisville's Jim LaFountain as the only players with that distinction. LaFountain hit two of his three grand slams in the same inning on March 24, 1976, in the second game of a doubleheader against Western Kentucky. He also hit a two-run homer in a 26-4 victory that was nullified in the fifth inning.
No major league player has hit three grand slams in one game. Thirteen players have had two in a game.
Armstrong, a senior first baseman, transferred from Texas-Arlington, where he hit 17 home runs and 87 RBIs in three seasons.
He went 3-for-4 with 12 RBI against New Mexico State.
Armstrong hit all three home runs to left field: a 401-foot homer in the third inning, a 407-foot shot in the fourth and a 386-foot homer in the seventh.
