CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kelsie Whitmore pinch-ran for the Staten Island FerryHawks in their period opener Thursday night time, becoming one of the very first ladies to perform in a league connected to Key League Baseball.
The 23-year-previous Whitmore entered at initially base for catcher Norberto Susini with two outs in the ninth inning of a 5-3 decline to the Charleston Soiled Birds. She was remaining stranded at 2nd base.
A former university softball player at Cal-State Fullerton, Whitmore signed with Staten Island this month, a person of several notable times for women in baseball this period.
Past week, San Francisco Giants coach Alyssa Nakken stuffed in as to start with foundation coach, turning out to be the very first girl to mentor on the subject for a big league recreation. A several days just before that, Rachel Balkovec received her debut handling the Low-A Tampa Tarpons in the New York Yankees’ process, becoming the to start with lady to skipper a workforce affiliated with a important league club.
Whitmore pitched and played in the outfield for the U.S. women’s baseball team from 2014-19 and used pieces of two seasons with the Sonoma Stompers of the impartial Pacific Association.
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