Eloy Jimenez finally hit his first homer on the South Side, and it was an absolute bomb

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Eloy Jimenez is starting to heat up, and it finally turned into some home cooking.

The White Sox uber prospect finally launched his first home run on the South Side. He led off the bottom of the fourth inning Tuesday night with a titanic shot off Washington Nationals hurler Patrick Corbin that landed on the stairs leading up to the Fan Deck in center field.

The bomb traveled 462 feet and snapped his 18-game homerless drought at Guaranteed Rate Field.

Coming into Tuesday's game, Jimenez wasn't at a shortage for round trippers. He had eight of them on the season, but every one of them came on the road. Not so for Tuesday's moonshot.

Jimenez's numbers haven't exactly jumped off the page so far in 2019. He came into Tuesday's game with a .230/.278/.421 slash line to go along with the eight homers and 17 RBIs. He had 48 strikeouts compared to just nine walks. He also missed 21 games with an ankle sprain.

But things have been getting better for the rookie outfielder. In his last 11 games coming into Tuesday, he slashed .300/.333/.525 with three doubles, a couple homers, six RBIs and five runs scored. Jimenez added a walk and a run scored in his first trip to the plate Tuesday before his ninth home run of the season.

The numbers, though, won't be as easily noticed as the couple of absolute bombs he's hit in recent days. The 462-footer Tuesday night on the South Side was preceded by a 471-foot shot Sunday in Kansas City that is the team's longest homer of the season. He's got the top two entries on that list after Tuesday night.

With that first South Side homer off the to-do list, Jimenez can keep on developing in his first season in the majors.

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