Yesterday in the Pacific Coast League

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Photo from MiLB.com/taken by Wendy Egan

 

This is Ryan Roberts.  He plays for the  Pacific Coast League on the Oklahoma RedHawks.  I was reading MiLB.com and this wonderful photo was on the front page…and it made me take notice (Kudos to Wendy Egan).  So I read on.

Roberts is a 27 year-old third baseman who’s been in the minor league system for six years.  Yesterday, in one inning, he hit a three-run homer and then a grand slam.  He’s the first PCL player since 2000 to knock in 7 rbi in one inning.  And before 2000, only two other players in the PCL ever had such an inning – one in  1939 and one in 1932.   Not too shabby.

A quick Google search tells me that Roberts’ first major league hit came in his second major league game, and was a  home run for the Toronto Blue Jays off of Cory Lidle at Yankee Stadium in August of 2006.  Also, he has over 30 tattoos.

I find one of these things infinitely more interesting than the other.

This is the kind of information that grabs my attention when I’m trying to find out the latest news on Kyle.  :)  I sense today, with my lazy attitude and an 8pm Sox game, will be a bit of a postapalooza.

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