To help fill the baseball void, we’re flipping the calendar back one year to remind us all just how awesome our great game is. Here's a look back at the best of April 12, 2019:

The No. 3 prospect on MLB Pipeline's Top 100 Prospects list in 2018, Eloy Jiménez, made his big league debut on Opening Day of the 2019 season, but it was on April 12 that he launched his first MLB home run. He hit another one later in the same game for good measure, helping the White Sox beat the Yankees, 9-6, in New York.

The first homer came off Jonathan Holder in the fifth inning, and according to Statcast, had an exit velocity of 108.6 mph and a projected distance of 425 feet to dead center field. The second came under pouring rain off Chad Green in the seventh, a solo shot to left-center field that traveled a projected 446 feet with an exit velocity of 111 mph.

The game was called after seven innings due to rain, so we'll never know if Jiménez would have hit a third homer in that contest. But he had a great rookie season, finishing fourth in American League Rookie of the Year voting after hitting .267/.315/.513 with 31 homers in 122 games.

Best of the rest:

Giants outlast Rox in 18: It lasted five hours and 35 minutes and took 18 innings, but the Giants finally broke a 2-2 tie with the Rockies when Erik Kratz hit a ground ball to the right side into a five-man infield -- Trevor Story gloved it, spun and fired home, where catcher Chris Iannetta was unable to keep his foot on the plate as Brandon Belt slid in for the winning run.

Gordon's 4 hits, including a special homer: Alex Gordon entered Kansas City's game against the Indians at Kauffman Stadium on a mission: Play every moment for a teenage friend of his named Charlie, who was a cancer patient undergoing brain surgery. Gordon wore a yellow armband with "Charlie" written on it, and had his first four-hit game in nearly a year. Those hits included a first-inning home run.

“I didn’t tell him I was going to hit a home run, but I think it was kind of meant to be," Gordon said. "I had goosebumps going around the bases. I wanted to make sure I tapped him and let him see it. It was pretty special."

Gordon tapped that armband after each of his four hits, which helped the Royals to an 8-1 victory.

Cubs crush long homers: Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras obliterated home runs to help the Cubs beat the Angels, 5-1, at Wrigley Field.

Rizzo nearly hit one onto Sheffield Avenue beyond the right-field wall in the first inning, sending the ball a projected distance of 472 feet, according to Statcast, with an exit velocity of 111.2 mph. Later in the first, Contreras launched one a projected 460 feet down the left-field line, onto Waveland Avenue -- it left the bat with an exit velocity of 109.4 mph. Contreras belted another shot 443 feet to nearly the exact same spot in the sixth, with an exit velocity of 108.6 mph.