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A
Day to Remember
With his dad looking on in the stands, Prince
Fielder goes yard twice to collect his first two double-A hits.
04.15.04 - Huntsville, AL -- Stars fans had to pinch themselves just to make
sure it was not a dream. Prince Fielder probably did the same in the clubhouse
after the game.
On April 10, Fielder recorded his first Southern League hit, an opposite-field solo homer to left.
Making the event even more special was the fact that his father Cecil witnessed the event. The former big-league slugger was in attendance signing autographs in the stands at Joe Davis Stadium.
The elder Fielder actually himself played in Huntsville while in the minors, albeit against the Stars, in their inaugural 1985 season.
In the sixth inning, with his proud papa offering commentary on the radio broadcast, Prince muscled up again, this time a gargantuan two-run blast to dead center.
Two hits, two homers and three runs batted in for Fielder, as the Stars notched their third straight win over Montgomery, 9-7.
The Stars scored nine runs on eight hits and stranded just one runner, the result of four long balls, bringing the team’s season total to six in three games.
Fielder’s first-inning solo drive began the barrage, and Brad Nelson, like Fielder a powerful left-handed batter, hit a rope to right for a two-run shot that tied the game, 3-3.
Enrique Cruz’s fifth-inning solo homerun put Huntsville up for good, 4-3. Fielder’s two-run bomb came in the sixth, and the Stars added three critical runs in the eighth.
Up 6-4, Huntsville rallied against reliever Chris Flinn, as Tony Gwynn, Jr. led off with a double and took third on Ryan Knox’s flyout to left. After Fielder was intentionally walked, Rickie Weeks, who went 4-for-4 the night before, struck out.
Nelson delivered a two-out run-scoring single, and Chris Barnwell’s first hit this season proved crucial, a two-run double to left-center for a 9-4 lead.
The Biscuits scored four against Stars reliever Reggie Rivard, but Roberto Giron came on to record the final two outs with runners at second and third to seal the game.
Giron’s second save in three games cemented the win for Tim Bausher (1-0), who tossed three scoreless innings of relief, permitting two hits and two walks while fanning five.
Jarod Matthews (0-1) suffered the loss, surrendering six runs, five earned, on five hits with two strikeouts in six innings.
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