When the Texas Rangers face-off in interleague play tonight against the Giants, local TV sets will be tuned in to see Scott Feldman on the mound for the Rangers. Feldman, who grew up in Ray Park and attended Burlingame schools, is 5-1 this year and pitching well. He's up against 300-game winner Randy Johnson tonight. There will be a few locals who were teammates at BHS at tailgate parties in the city. That's why they call it "The Big Show".
Sportswriter Emanuel Lee of the SM Daily Journal caught up with Scott's college coach:
"Here's a kid who grew up in Burlingame, now playing in the majors and facing one of the game's all-time greats, it doesn't get much better than that," said CSM manager Doug Williams, who coached Feldman for two crucial years at CSM, a time in which Feldman transformed himself into a pro prosect.
Fun stuff. There were about nine ex-Panthers playing for CSM this year and one more is headed there to play ball next year.
Scott Feldman looked pretty good last night as did Randy Johnson. Feldman gave up a lead-off homer to Aaron Rowland, but settled down to a strong outing.
It was great to hear Kruk and Kuip highlight that Scott was a Burlingame High product several times during the broadcast. In one of the oddities of baseball, Medders got the win for the Giants even though he had the weakest outing of all the pitchers last night!
Posted by: joe | June 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM