GLENDALE, Ariz. -- You never know when you’ll see someone again in this game.

Jacob Burke faced Haden Erbe twice during the regular season in the High-A Midwest League while the former was with Winston-Salem and the latter with Bowling Green. On Monday, the two crossed paths again in the Arizona Fall League, and using his recall from the previous meetings, it was Burke who claimed the upper hand.

The No. 20 White Sox prospect crushed a grand slam en route to Glendale's 6-4 win over Peoria at Camelback Ranch. It was Burke’s second homer of the AFL.

The first matchup between the pair ended with the right-handed pitcher getting the same-sided slugger to chase a 2-2 slider away for a strikeout on Aug. 22. Four days later, Burke got his revenge when he stung another breaking ball down the left-field line for a double.

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Flash forward two months, and Burke and Erbe crossed paths on a third occasion Monday and in a big spot – in the seventh inning with the bases loaded and Erbe’s Javelinas leading Burke’s Desert Dogs, 4-2. The 22-year-old knew exactly what to sit on.

“I remember he had good bite on his slider,” Burke said. “He tried to go fastball first pitch, and I laid off it for a ball. Then he got me on the slider the next pitch, and so I figured he was probably going back to it. He just left it over the middle, and I was able to get the barrel on it.”

The ball traveled 421 feet down the line in left and left the bat with an exit velocity of 105 mph. It was Burke’s first grand slam in pro ball since he was taken in the 11th round of the 2022 Draft out of the University of Miami and his first in any official game since March 6, 2021, while he was with Southeastern Louisiana University before transferring to the Hurricanes.

Since that last four-run dinger, the 22-year-old center fielder has developed a reputation as an average-over-power bat with good foot speed and impressive defense on the grass. After missing out on parts of April and May with lower-back issues, Burke hit .294/.392/.439 with six homers and 19 steals in 85 games between Winston-Salem and Single-A Kannapolis – numbers that further fed his scouting report.

The pop he did show tended to come to the pullside, as Monday’s slam did, but Burke says he wasn’t sent to Arizona with explicit instructions to focus on power during his time in the desert.

“I was leading off most of the year, so my job was to get on base,” he said. “But I know that I have this capability. It’s something that I assumed would come with more repetition and getting more experience in pro ball. I’m happy with that so far, but definitely a lot of work to be done and a lot left in my tank as a player.”

Burke finished 1-for-4 from the top spot in the Glendale lineup. He stands 9-for-40 (.225) with the two homers and a double through 10 games, but true to form, he has double the amount of walks (six) as extra-base hits (three) in that span.

But just because he got a taste for power thanks to his knowledge of Erbe’s stuff, don’t expect Burke to swing for the fences. He wants the pop to keep coming naturally, knowing someone else’s killer breaking stuff could be lurking right around the corner in the Fall League.

“It doesn’t do anything,” Burke said of the grand slam. “In this game, can’t get too high, can’t get too low because the game will humble you, and it’ll beat you down if you don’t have confidence. Tomorrow’s a new day.”