Twenty-seven-year-old infielder/outfielder makes Prince George sports history as first player to ever be called up to Major League Baseball team
Randy Young was teaching a Grade 7 math class at Hart Highlands Elementary in Prince George Wednesday morning when his phone rang.
While Randy’s older son Tanner looked into the cost of hotel rooms and flights for the family to Chicago, where the Cubs will start a three-game series at Wrigley Field against the Colorado Rockies, Randy went back to teaching, sitting on one of the biggest secrets of his life. The Cubs later announced on Twitter they’ve placed outfielder Rafael Ortega on the 60-day injured list due to a ring finger fracture and called in Young to replace him. Randy got a text from Jared later in the afternoon to say he was in the lineup in New York, where the Cubs were hoping to complete a three-game sweep of the National League East division leaders.Currently batting .
“I said, ‘Dad, there’s a reason he’s not in the lineup today, because he got called up to the big-league Cubs, and of course he was just over the moon,” Randy said. “I said, ‘It’s OK Dad, you don’t have to worry about him not being in the I-Cubs lineup tonight because he’s going to be in New York tonight and he will be in a Cubs uniform playing against the New York Mets tonight.”
“He’s a special case, there’s not too many like him in any city, let alone Prince George. I’ve always said that, when he was little, this guy is really good, and he was.”
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