Henry Davis, the very first general choice in the 2021 MLB draft, squandered no time at all making an effect in his very first big league video game.
Beginning in best field and batting seventh for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday night after getting the call-up from Triple-A Indianapolis, Davis got his very first MLB hit in his very first at-bat in the bottom of the 3rd inning. The 23-year-old who was taken with the leading choose of Louisville belted a difficult ground ball down the left field line off the Chicago Cubs’ Drew Smyly and raced to 2nd for a stand-up double. It was the Pirates’ very first hit of the video game.
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Davis, whose primary position is catcher, began the season with the Double-A Altoona Curve prior to he was contacted to Triple-A Indianapolis. He batted.286 with a homer in 10 video games there, after batting.284 with 10 crowning achievement with Altoona.
” He should have to be here,” Pirates supervisor Derek Shelton stated Sunday. “I believe he’s revealed that.”
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Davis discovered Sunday he was getting the call-up. He stated he had some suspicions when he discovered he was being held out of Indianapolis’ lineup. Indianapolis supervisor Miguel Perez provided him the news with a note that stated “you’re going to the Program.”
Contributing: Associated Press
