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Mariners rookie soaks in his MLB debut | Notebook

The Seattle Times·Ryan Divish Seattle Times staff reporter·about 1 month ago
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MINNEAPOLIS — With a steady drizzle falling, Alex Hoppe emerged from the visitor’s bullpen Monday at Target Field and started jogging to the mound to make his MLB debut.  Was he thinking about finally reaching a childhood dream of pitching in the big leagues? Did he try and look for his wife, Sasha, who was standing in the uncovered lower bowl, nervously anticipating his first MLB pitch? Or was he focused on how he would attack Minnesota’s Matt Wallner, the first batter he would face? Nope.  “I was staring at my feet, trying not to trip over my feet as I was running in from the bullpen,” he said.  Tripping and falling onto the soggy turf before even reaching the mound would’ve made his MLB debut pretty memorable.  But once he took the mound, a moment he’d never experienced in his baseball career didn’t become too big. “Just focus like I’ve been doing in Triple-A and what I’ve been doing my entire career,” he said.…

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