SeaWolves' Stewart goes yard twice

After going 16 games without a home run, Christin Stewart is back atop the Eastern League leaderboard. 
The Tigers' second-ranked prospect went yard twice and drove in four runs to power Double-A Erie to a 5-4 victory over Trenton and a split of Sunday's doubleheader. 

Game 2 box score
Stewart, who went 0-for-3 in a 6-0 loss in the opener, drew a five-pitch walk in his first at-bat in the nightcap, then deposited a 1-0 offering from Thunder starter Nestor Cortes into the right field seats at UPMC Park for a three-run blast.

The SeaWolves trailed, 4-3, when Stewart came up in the eighth against reliever Cale Coshow (0-2). He sent a 1-1 pitch over the right field fence to complete his second two-homer game of the season against Trenton.

The Tigers promoted Stewart to Double-A for the first time last July. The 2015 first-round pick hit .218 with a .310 on-base percentage and six homers in 24 games with Erie in 2016. In 27 games with the SeaWolves this season, Stewart has a .283/.388/.606 slash line.

"Offensively, obviously, he's a force," SeaWolves manager Lance Parrish told The Detroit News last month. "He continues to improve with his recognition of the strike zone and with being aggressive on balls in the strike zone.
"I think last year when he came up here, he was a little more passive. He was looking at more pitches than I would have liked. But he seems to have adjusted to being at this level. He's more aggressive at the plate and driving the ball."
Jeff McVaney collected three hits and scored a run for Erie, which got a walk-off single in the ninth from Tigers No. 25 prospect A.J. Simcox.
Following an 0-4 performance in the opener, Yankees top prospectGleyber Torres went 2-for-5 with a double and scored twice. The 20-year-old shortstop is hitting .288 through 19 games.
Yankees No. 9 prospect Miguel Andújar combined to go 3-for-8 with two doubles and four RBIs in the twinbill. Ronald Herrera (2-0) scattered four hits over six innings in Trenton's 6-0 win in Game 1.