offense with a two-run dinger to dead center off fellow Red Sox prospect and Class AA Portland Sea Dogs teammate Denyi Reyes. He took a fastball - I believe middle-up-away - didn’t try to pull it, hit a big home run to left-center," he said. "We were chuckling, we were like ‘Oh jeez, Japan didn’t learn their lesson.’ So there it was again."Ĭasas kept the hot bat going against the Dominican Republic on Wednesday, sparking the U.S. "Because he did that same thing against Japan in the World Cup. Stankiewicz texted Matt Blood, formerly the U-18 team director and now director of player development of the Baltimore Orioles, and members of that coaching staff. “I was like, ‘OK, that’s Triston,’” Stankiewicz told USA TODAY Sports by phone. a 6-3 lead the Americans eventually coughed up, but the opposite-field power was instantly recognizable to Stankiewicz. His three-run shot against Japan on Monday gave the U.S. The Florida native has been powering up in his first Games, too, with two home runs in back-to-back games against South Korea and Japan. TEXT WITH US AT TOKYO OLYMPICS: Subscribe to texts, where we’ll be your official guide to the Games INSIDE SCOOP IN TOKYO: Subscribe to our Olympic newsletter now Casas, now 21, was named MVP of that tournament after leading the field with home runs (three) and RBI (13). Stankiewicz, a former Major League Baseball infielder who is now the head coach at Grand Canyon University, had managed the top-ranked Boston Red Sox prospect on the 2017 U-18 World Cup team that took gold in Thunder Bay, Canada. baseball team's offense during an international competition. The Tokyo Olympics isn't the first time Triston Casas has carried a U.S. TOKYO - Scrolling through Twitter, Andy Stankiewicz saw a home-run highlight he could have sworn he'd seen from the dugout four years earlier.Įxcept this big fly to left-center from that smooth left-handed swing occurred only hours prior. softball legend Jennie Finch on the game's future in the Olympics
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