Usually when people say a hitter “tore the cover off the ball,” they mean it figuratively. But that’s only because they don’t know about White Sox slugger Jose Abreu.
 
Jose Abreu literally knocks the cover off a baseball
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
See that baseball? Jose Abreu did that on Tuesday night in Colorado. The ball he destroyed went foul, but that’s alright: Abreu also homered twice in the game.As a reminder: Before defecting and signing a six-year, $68 million contract with the White Sox this offseason, Abreu hit .393 with a .542 on-base percentage and .791 slugging over his last three seasons in Cuba.Reminiscent of the classic scene from The Natural
 

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