Baseball: Rays rookie Yoshitomo Tsutsugo blasts preseason homer

Tampa Bay Rays rookie Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slugged his first major league home run -- albeit a preseason one -- on Monday in a 2-2 tie with the Boston Red Sox.After getting a hit in his preseason debut on Sunday, Tsutsugo tied Monday's game at 1-1 in the fourth inning after crushing a fastball from Red Sox left-hander Jeffrey Springs into the left-center deck at Charlotte Sports Park."It felt good. I was conscious to some degree of (hitting to) the opposite side (left-center field)," said Tsutsugo, who bats left and throws right.Tsutsugo, who joined the Rays after 10 seasons with Japan's DeNA…READ FULL ARTICLE