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Prospect Highlights: Double From Alen Hanson, Stetson Allie’s Homer

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Altoona played a doubleheader on Friday, completing a suspended game from June 11th before their regularly scheduled game. The first game had an odd occurrence, made even more odd by what happened in the second game. On Wednesday night, Alen Hanson went 0-for-4, breaking his 12 game hit streak. On Friday, he extended that hit streak to 13 games by collecting two hits in the suspended game. Since the stats count towards June 11th, the streak that was snapped two days earlier, got one game longer. Hanson had two hits in the nightcap, but those stats counted towards June 20th. So with hits in both games on Friday, he extended one hit streak to 13 games and another to two games. Over his last ten games, Hanson has six multi-hit games. He is batting .353 in 16 games this month. Here is a double from yesterday that also shows off his great speed.

The highlights have been light the last few days in the minors, so this Stetson Allie homer from Wednesday has been waiting around for something else of note to happen. Allie is on the disabled list now due to a concussion suffered in a brawl that happened later in this same game. The homer here is the 12th of the season from Allie, tops among all Pirates players from the Majors all the way down.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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