Forum › Forum › Lehigh Sports › Lehigh In The Pros › Update on Matt McBride
This topic contains 33 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by LU808 9 years, 7 months ago.
-
AuthorPosts
-
July 7, 2014 at 9:02 pm #14677July 7, 2014 at 11:30 pm #14678
Gosh,he has been snakebit. Hope he can get a full season in.
July 9, 2014 at 2:09 am #14696Looks like Matt is back on the ball field and doing well. Expected back with the Skysox after the AS break
http://www.mcall.com/sports/mc-matt-mcbride-return-injury-0708-20140708,0,1432561.story
August 9, 2014 at 7:59 pm #14967I think Matt has a really good chance for a September callup. He is hitting about .375 in August and has brought his average up over.300 for the season which is the highest for anyone over 23 games. Included in his August hitting is 2 homers and 2 doubles.
http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=&sid=t551&t=p_pbp&pid=473724
August 18, 2014 at 4:12 pm #15084Per The Morning Call
Matt McBride
McBride is hitting .327 in 31 games since recovering from a broken foot. The Liberty High School grad had seven doubles, a triple, four home runs and 21 runs batted in during that span.
The 6-foot-2, 215-pound outfielder-first baseman is batting .331 in 50 games, which includes a four-game rehab stint with rookie league Grand Junction after suffering a stress fracture in his right foot in an April 18 game.
The Lehigh University product has a nine-game hitting streak for Triple-A Colorado Springs, including a season-high four hits Aug. 7 against Omaha.
McBride, a second-round pick of the Cleveland Indians in 2006, had a nine-game hitting streak in late July when he was named Pacific Coast League player of the weekAugust 20, 2014 at 2:26 am #15117Rockies purchased his contract and called him up.
August 21, 2014 at 1:25 am #15127I believe that this is the first time that any Patriot League school (for all 3 sports) has had a representative on the MLB, NFL and NBA roster at the same time.
August 21, 2014 at 1:27 am #15129Off target a little, but Chicago Cubs called up an old LU nemesis on the gridiron: Matt Szczur, a Villanova football offensive juggernaut.
August 21, 2014 at 1:45 am #15130Think so. Dont forget MLL,we have 2 active and I think 7 more on inactive collegiate list. Only prior MLB that I remembetfor LU was a pretty good relief pitcher for the Angels,whose name I just cant recall.
August 21, 2014 at 3:16 am #15131Matt hits Grand Slam in 1st game as a Rockie. Wow!!
August 21, 2014 at 3:44 am #15133This is Matt’s 2nd time up with the Rockies and his second game during this stint but that grand slam should get him some playing time for the rest of the season.
The pitcher you were talking about may have been my class mate Paul Hartzell ’75. Craig Anderson was another notable. There have been a total of of 18 Engineers/Mountainhawks who played in the majors.http://www.baseball-reference.com/schools/index.cgi?key_school=2859544c
August 21, 2014 at 3:48 am #15134Yes!! I recalled Paul could not remember his last name.. 18, I’m pleasantly surprised. Forgot Matt was up once before. Hope this earns him a real shot.
August 21, 2014 at 5:13 am #15135Hartzell was one of four men the Angels traded to the Twins for Hall-of-Famer Rod Carew … you may have heard of two of the other three: Brad Havens and Ken Landreaux
August 21, 2014 at 10:50 am #15136Remember the article SI did on him. Lehigh in SI ,boy I was so proud .
August 22, 2014 at 7:09 am #15140Per TMH’s find, looks like last Lehigh MLB homer before Matt’s two in his first callup in 2012 came in 1926.
Trot out the historians to determine if he was the first Engineer to ever hit a grand slam. Lehigh now has a whopping 21 HRs in its history, three in the last 84 years — all by McBride.
BTW: Here’s a good clip about “the pride of Lehigh” hitting the grannie (look atthe smile on his face when he enters the dugout):
-
AuthorPosts
You must be logged in to reply to this topic.