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June 18, 2055
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16-year-old draftee Ánibal Torres has wasted no time impressing Sacramento scouts. The third-round pick quickly inked a no-nonsense deal with the club, then has proceeded to pound the metaphorical snot out of baseballs. It all culminated tonight when the kid dropped four-of-a kind on the Alamogordo pitching staff, blasting four homers in only his 7th game as a professional baseballer.
He led off the game with a homer, and led off the top of the 9th with another. Between them he sandwiched a pair of two-run shots.
In other words, it was a pretty good day of baseball.
“We love him,” said manager Berkeley manager Francisco Moran. “He can hit and he can run. Maybe if he could pitch we would have won the game.
Berkely did somehow manage to lose by a score of 12-10.
Go figure.
“First I give all praise to the great Camacho in the Sky,” Torres said in an interview after that game. “I was seeing the ball really good. Sometimes the game is really easy, you know?”
Indeed, it is. Easy enough right now, anyway, that Torres is bashing and crashing to the tune of .425/.455/1.025, with seven homers in 12 games. Those are gaudy enough figures that the team is apparently already considering a promotion.
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16-year-old draftee Ánibal Torres has wasted no time impressing Sacramento scouts. The third-round pick quickly inked a no-nonsense deal with the club, then has proceeded to pound the metaphorical snot out of baseballs. It all culminated tonight when the kid dropped four-of-a kind on the Alamogordo pitching staff, blasting four homers in only his 7th game as a professional baseballer.
He led off the game with a homer, and led off the top of the 9th with another. Between them he sandwiched a pair of two-run shots.
In other words, it was a pretty good day of baseball.
“We love him,” said manager Berkeley manager Francisco Moran. “He can hit and he can run. Maybe if he could pitch we would have won the game.
Berkely did somehow manage to lose by a score of 12-10.
Go figure.
“First I give all praise to the great Camacho in the Sky,” Torres said in an interview after that game. “I was seeing the ball really good. Sometimes the game is really easy, you know?”
Indeed, it is. Easy enough right now, anyway, that Torres is bashing and crashing to the tune of .425/.455/1.025, with seven homers in 12 games. Those are gaudy enough figures that the team is apparently already considering a promotion.