Greg Hansen's Sunday Notebook: The Star's longtime columnist on: Cienega grad Gonzales' dream-come-true MLB moment, taking draft stock in the draft prospects of UA baseball's Davis and Romero, U.S. bowling champ Coté's place in local history, a deep Ari...
Greg Hansen The Star's longtime columnist on: Cienega grad Nick Gonzales' dream-come-true MLB long-ball moment ... taking stock in the draft prospects of Arizona baseball's Chase Davis and Kiko Romero ... U.S. bowling champ Bryanna Coté's place in Tucson sports history ... a deep bench for Tommy Lloyd and Arizona men's basketball ... and more.
Gonzales struck out. Then he struck out again. Finally, in his third big-league at-bat, he grounded out to third base. He would go 0 for 8 his first three games.As it turns out, many of Tucson's 27 position players to reach the big leagues didn't wait long to deliver. Sahuaro's Tom Wiedenbauer hit a double, and Pueblo's George Arias and CDO's Ian Kinsler both singled in their first major league at-bats. .
• Ian Kinsler, CDO. In 2006, Kinsler hit a home run in Game 3 of his career, his ninth at-bat, and went 3 for 3, a preview of a distinguished career in which he had 1,999 hits• Brian Anderson, CDO. In 2005, Anderson homered in Game 5, his 14th at-bat, and then hit another homer later in the game, both against Seattle All-Star"King" Felix Hernandez
The longest wait for a major-league home run of the 27 Tucson big-leaguers? Two-time All-Star shortstop J.J. Hardy of Sabino didn't hit one out of the park until his 45th big-league game, at-bat No. 146. Hardy went on to hit 188 home runs. Romero, by comparison, played for the low-key Western Collegiate League's Corvallis Knights the last two summers and had a high"chase-the-ball-out-of-the-zone" rate.
Tucson bowler Coté belongs in select companyI was flipping through the cable channels last week and stopped when I saw that CBS Sports Network was broadcasting the finals of the U.S. Women's Open. Bowling. To my delight, I watched as Tucsonan Bryanna Coté won the championship in a tense final match. Christensen finished seventh Saturday, at 17 under par, in the European Amateur championships in Estonia. He will hurry from there to compete in Tuesday's final qualifying round for the British Open, in the field with, among others, Sergio Garcia, in Lancashire, England. ...
• When Wyndham Clark won the U.S. Open golf championship two weeks ago, it sparked memories of his strong connection to Tucson.
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