About Last Night: Ben Gamel takes his chance, runs all the way home with it

Jul 23 2017 by Lookout Landing

 

Or: I was so very wrong about Ben Gamel, or as I now know him, Benny Ballgame

All Ben Gamel wanted was a chance. So when the call came in, informing him that he’d been traded from the Yankees to the Mariners, he didn’t see it as being traded from the most storied team in baseball to a lesser-known team the other side of the country, three time zones away from his family in Florida. All he saw was a chance.

When Gamel didn’t make the team out of spring training, he was disappointed...

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