The Diamondbacks Rookie Catcher had had a historic start to his major league career.
There weren't many fans in loanDept park for the game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Miami Marlins Monday night. But it seemed most in attendance were family and friends of Miami native Adrian Del Castillo. They made most of the noise in the ballpark and for good reason.
On Sunday Del Castillo hit a game tying three-run homer in the ninth inning to send the game to extra innings. All of this production is reaching historic levels.Del Castillo's 14 RBI are tied with Dale Alexander in 1929 for 2nd-most in first 9 career games since RBI became official in 1920, behind only Mitchell Page who had 15 in 1977.that Del Castillo is the third MLB catcher ever with 6+ RBI and a stolen base in a single game, joining Jerry Grote and Johnny Bench .
"It's awesome, seeing everybody's face, everywhere I look it's different faces, love for all of them" Del Castillo said. His good fortune ran out in the sixth inning when he walked two and gave up two singles to allow two more runs. Kevin Ginkel came in to get an inning ending double play, stranding two runners to keep Pfaadt's line from blowing up.
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