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Colin Curtis tags first Major League home run

July 21st, 2010 at Wed, 21st, 2010 at 3:04 pm by Kevin Endejan

Issaquah’s own Colin Curtis continues to make noise with the New York Yankees a month after getting called up to the Majors.

Curtis inherited an 0-2 count on Wednesday afternoon, when teammate Brett Gardner was ejected from the game against Anaheim. Curtis worked the count full against Scot Shields, before drilling a line drive just over the right-field fence for his first Major League home run — a three-run shot. The homer prompted a curtain call from the Yankee Stadium crowd of 47,521.

Curtis is now batting .259 with a home run and seven RBI. Be sure to check out my feature on Curtis, in case you missed it.

I’m the sports reporter/editor at the Issaquah/Sammamish Reporter newspaper. On this blog you’ll find extra bits and pieces to stories I’ve written, behind the scene looks at teams, and observations on the sports in our area. I’ll field questions here, and ask a few too. You can follow me on Twitter or send me an email.

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