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Palm Desert's Brian Serven Starts At Catcher In Major League Debut, Grounds Out In First At-bat With Colorado Rockies 메이저사이트
Coachella Valley local Brian Serven ventured to the plate without precedent for a MLB game Wednesday in Denver, against the San Francisco Giants, with his folks, sibling, sister and a few companions in participation at Coors Field.

On the principal pitch he saw, a 86-mph changeup from Logan Webb, Serven swung, connected and sent the ball up into the grandstands on a foul ball. As destiny would have it, the ball arrived around 10 feet from where the Servens were situated and the fan who got the ball offered the keepsake to the family.

"Well, we're watching his most memorable pitch and he hits a foul ball right at us," said Jim Serven, Brian's father. "It might have gone anyplace."

It was that sort of day for the family, as Brian Serven began at catcher, in the wake of being called up from Colorado's Triple A subsidiary, the Albuquerque Isotopes, on Tuesday. With Serven in the arrangement, wearing No. 6, the Rockies finished a 12-game series of failures to the Giants with a 5-3 win before 26,713 fans.

With his presentation in the books, Brian Serven joins Angels outfielder Taylor Ward as the main dynamic MLB players from the valley.

"It's fairly close to home," Jim Serven said. "Simply the realization of a long time of doing this. We wind up being somewhat more close to home than we naturally suspected we'd be. Not an excessive number of things in life cause you to feel that sort of feeling."

Serven, 27, featured at Palm Desert High School and afterward Arizona State before he was drafted by the Rockies in the fifth round in 2016. He dealt with the small time positions and burned through all of last season and this season playing catcher for the Isotopes.

Last season, while playing for the Isotopes, Serven hit a grand slam off a rehabbing Clayton Kershaw during a short small time spell for the Dodgers elite player. In 77 at-bats up to this point this season, Serven has a .273 normal with five grand slams, 12 RBIs and an OBS of .912.

With Serven elevated to the majors, catcher Dom Nunez was sent down to the minors. Elias Diaz, the main other catcher on the Colorado program, began Tuesday night against the Giants and consequently didn't play the next evening game, which is entirely expected in MLB.