Highly touted Pete Crow-Armstrong snapped a career-starting 20-plate appearance hitless streak Thursday afternoon by blasting a tie-breaking 2-run homer.
The ball had barely landed in the.
Ian Happ was hit by a pitch thrown by Bryan Abreu of the Astros in the seventh inning Wednesday afternoon. It was the 5th time a Cub was plunked at home this season and the 2,000th in the team's.
Hard to believe it's been 20 years since 2003, but it was a much different time, long before many future Twins Hall of Famers made their debuts on the Metrodome's carpet.
One day in late September, before a game in San Francisco, Ha-Seong Kim considered both the near future and his distant home continent. The unveiling of another class of Gold Glove winners was a little more than a month away. It was not lost on the San Diego Padres second baseman that in all the decades of the award’s existence, no infielder born on the other side of the Pacific had gotten to hoist it.
Until, perhaps, this year.
“The whole Asian baseball community and young kids are watching me and playing that position and thinking about coming over here,” Kim said through interpreter.