I haven’t thought about Pete Orr in a long time. But, apparently, he’s still alive and playing baseball:
INF Peter Orr (Richmond Hill, Ont.) has re-signed with the Milwaukee Brewers with an invite to spring training camp #Brewers
— bob elliott (@elliottbaseball) November 7, 2014
Orr spent all of 2014 in Triple-A with the Brewers in Nashville. Now he gets to spend it, presumably, at Triple-A with the Brewers in Colorado Springs. A handy guy to have around for depth, I suppose.
The Padres’ Austin Hedges hit a fun home run in last night’s game against the Mariners.
He was facing M’s reliever Cory Gearrin with two outs in the sixth and drove one to deep right center. Padres outfielder Mallex Smith ranged back, leapt — though he didn’t have to — the ball doinked off his glove, and went over the fence for an alley-oop homer.
The best part was Hedges chuckling and, I think anyway, kinda tipping his cap to Smith. For his part, Smith sat on the ground and looked rather disgusted about it all. Which, you can’t really blame him:
It was the second time in three days such a homer was hit. On Sunday Dexter Fowler did the same courtesy to Noah Syndergaard.
Now, can someone tell me why these aren’t four-base errors? There’s probably a reason but, really, there’s no way these were dingers without the unintended help of the outfielder.
