Jesse Rogers, ESPN Body of workers Editor
SEATTLE — A season in the past, Miami Marlins anticipation Nasim Nunez was once upset he wasn’t decided on to play games within the Futures Sport at Dodger Stadium, so he selected no longer to concentrate on it when it came to visit this day.
Apart from this future, he did form the workforce and later received MVP of the sport Saturday upcoming turning in a pinch-hit, three-run double to left farmland sooner than stealing 3rd bottom within the Nationwide League’s 5-0 win over the American League possibilities.
“MVP never crossed my mind until I got in the dugout and people started talking that talk like, ‘You’re MVP,'” Nunez mentioned. “I was like, ‘All right, all right, all right. Chill.'”
Nunez is enjoying at Double-A Pensacola this day upcoming being drafted in the second one spherical via the Marlins in 2019. He has 33 stolen bases, two greater than his RBI overall this season.
Nunez’s grandfather just lately died, making Saturday’s honor that a lot more particular. He had his complete prolonged nation with him on the recreation.
“He’d always yell at me, ‘Hit the ball, hit the ball! Uppercut, uppercut!'” a smiling Nunez mentioned of his grandfather.
The sport additionally featured Brewers pitching anticipation Jacob Misiorowski, who threw 10 pitches at 100 mph or sooner. He added yet another at 99 mph and struck out 3 in his lone inning of labor.
Jackson Holliday, utmost summer time’s Incorrect.1 general select within the beginner draft, went 0-for-1 with a strikeout.
