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With Jarred Kelenic reportedly on his way to the Majors, Julio Rodriguez made a point of reminding the Mariners there s plenty more to come.
MLB s No. 5 prospect hit his first home run and finished a triple shy of the cycle to help lead High-A Everett past visiting Tri-City, 13-3, Tuesday night. RodrÃguez drove in three runs, scored three times and has hit safely in five straight and six of seven to begin the season.
Coming off a 2-for-5, two-stolen base performance on Sunday, the 20-year-old laced his third double of the year to center and scored on No. 29 M s prospect Tyler Keenan s first-career home run in the opening frame. RodrÃguez joined the homer parade in the next frame, blasting a two-run shot over the scoreboard in right-center field. He went down swinging in his next at-bat but came through with a single to left to produce his third RBI of the night, equaling his total through his first six games.
April 9, 2021
The mystery pitcher began appearing in my morning box scores during the second half of September 1980. Sometimes he was Valenzuela, others Valenzla, but every time I looked, he had zeroes next to his name. I couldn’t find him in my baseball card set, my
Street & Smith’s Official Yearbook 1980, or my
Complete Handbook of Baseball 1980. All I knew was that suddenly he was one of the Dodgers’ most reliable relievers, a rookie thrown into the fire of a three-way NL West race between the Dodgers, Astros, and Reds.
What I didn’t know was that just over six months later, everybody who was anybody would know the name Fernando Valenzuela and the trail of zeroes he left in his wake. Fernandomania was coming.
Female coaches are suddenly expanding their presence in the uppermost ranks of men’s professional sports, especially across baseball, basketball, and football. During the past 18 months alone, at least 30 women were working as full-time coaches in MLB, NBA, and NFL organizations.
While women still occupy only a fraction of such positions, their nascent movement into coaching represents what some believe could be the beginning of a second gender revolution in sports almost 50 years after the passage of Title IX. The new coaches are inspiring a generation of young female athletes, bringing greater diversity to dugouts and weight rooms, and may usher in new ways of motivating pro athletes – and even winning.
Opening day: More women are coaching men s baseball and other sports csmonitor.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from csmonitor.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.