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Eibner hits 3 homers in rout

May 12, 2016 at 10:11 p.m.

by Andrew Hutchinson

Kansas City Royals' Brett Eibner races the throw as he advances to third on a ground-out by Orlando Calixte during the seventh inning of a spring training baseball game against the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Surprise, Ariz. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Brett Eibner hit three home runs for the triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers in a 15-5 win over the Memphis Redbirds on Thursday.

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The former Arkansas star is no stranger to three-homer games. He is the last player to have such a game for the Razorbacks, hitting three against Grambling State in the 2010 Fayetteville Regional.

Two of Eibner's home runs Thursday came in the same inning, as he hit a pair of two-run shots as part of a 10-run fifth inning for the Storm Chasers. He also had a two-run homer in the third inning that broke a 1-1 tie.

Eibner finished the game 3-for-5 with six RBIs. The performance raised his batting average to .318 on the season and nearly doubled his home run total, from four to seven.

During his five-plus years in the minors, Eibner has had five two-home run games, but this was his first with three.