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GONE! GONE! GONE! 3 HRs for Pedlar Thursday, April 30th , 1953 Fans seated in the bleacher section at Team 15 Fields were taking cover all day long as Layton Pedlar zeroed in on them, rattling three long blasts off the seats in a display of Herculean power. The big game from the Arecibo University third baseman helped the Tarzans take the victory, 14-1, over the Cancun A&M Pumas. "I told myself not to press on the last one," he told reporters in the postgame press conference. "I knew I couldn't force it -- it has to be a nice easy swing." For the game, he collected 4 hits in 6 at-bats, drove in 4 and scored 4 runs. Layton Pedlar hit a solo-shot off Ian Fox in the 1st, singled in the 2nd, hit a solo-shot off Robby Capponi in the 3rd, struck out in the 5th, hit a two-run home run off Roberto Garcia in the 7th and flied out in the 8th. Pedlar is batting .328 this year with 11 home runs, 31 RBIs and 49 runs scored. He has 62 hits in 189 at-bats. |
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