Everybody seems to enjoy a good brawl in baseball and yesterday afternoon, we had just that in a Double-A game between the Frisco RoughRiders (Texas Rangers) and Corpus Christi Hooks (Houston Astros). The two Texas League teams were only in the bottom of the second inning when Hooks' designated hitter Danry Vasquez was hit in the leg by a pitch from RoughRiders starter Yohander Mendez...
In nearly 25 years of broadcasting Minor League baseball, Matt Hicks has had only one goal: to make it to the Big Leagues. You might say that Hicks is the Crash Davis of broadcasters; a guy who refuses to leave the business because he is still pursuing his dream.