A manager ejection. The dumbest bases-clearing error of the season. A comeback win. The New York Mets managed to accomplish all three in one afternoon.
From college baseball walk-on, to NCAA All-American, and now to a top-10 MLB Draft pick, former NMSU infielder Nick Gonzales saw his dreams come to fruition as he was selected seventh overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates.
It's one of the scariest scenes in sports; an unsuspecting fan getting struck by a ball during a game. It happened last night in Pittsburgh when a female fan at PNC Park had her back turned toward the field and was struck by a foul ball from the Cubs' Starlin Castro...
The Pittsburgh Pirates were 51-44 on July 20th, and it seemed for the first time in nearly two decades that they actually had a team that knew how to win. The pirates were in first place in the NL Central by a game and amazed many baseball fans both in the state of Pennsylvania and all over the country.