Bryce is starting to bomb, in a good way. A very good way.
Bryce Rainer, the Tigers' No. 3-ranked prospect according to MLB Pipeline (he'll soon be No. 2, now that top dog Max Clark has graduated to the major leagues), homered in his fourth consecutive game Tuesday. The four-game home-run streak is the longest of his professional career. Before this streak, Rainer had homered in two consecutive games on two occasions.
Rainer now has 14 homers on the season, split between Low-A Lakeland and High-A West Michigan.
The first home run in Rainer's four-game streak came Friday, Aug. 14, at home at LMCU Ballpark in Comstock Park, and the second came the next day, also at home against Lansing:
Bryce Rainer with a 111-MPH missile over the wall in right for his 12th home run of the year. @ThatDanHasty has it at 414 feet. pic.twitter.com/oT67RVFMmg
— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) August 15, 2026
Rainer's third straight game with a homer came Sunday, Aug. 16, also at home, and also against Lansing:
And Bryce Rainer crushes a solo homer to center on the 2nd pitch of the first inning. It’s his 13th home run of the year. @ThatDanHasty calls it. pic.twitter.com/jbgv6ol8Hr
— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) August 16, 2026
And on Tuesday, Rainer's streak reached four, at South Bend:
Bryce Rainer with a monster blast to dead center. It’s his 14th home run of the year, and his 4th straight game with a bomb. pic.twitter.com/DV5j1MTHBm
— Tigers ML Report (@tigersMLreport) August 18, 2026
Rainer, 21, was the Tigers' first-round pick (No. 11 overall) in the 2024 Major League Baseball Draft, and he began his pro career with Lakeland in 2025, before that season was cut short after just 28 games with a freak shoulder injury.
He began this season at Lakeland before he was promoted to West Michigan in mid-April. He could be trending toward a promotion to Double-A Erie, though his strikeout rate (123 in 363 plate appearances at High A) remains high.
Entering Tuesday night's game, Rainer, a shortstop, was batting .270/.377/.466 in 81 games with the Whitecaps.
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