How Ezequiel Tovar’s Surprising Leadership Sparked a Rockies Revolution in the World Baseball Classic
The Rockies sent two relief pitchers to play for Mexico. The right-handed Victor Vodnik—whom we learned was of Mexican and Slovenian descent this spring—was invited to Team Mexico by Rockies legend Vinny Castilla.
“Vinny asked me, ‘Hey Vic, are you Mexican?’ and I told him everything. He was like, ‘Okay, do you want to go? You down to play for Team Mexico?’ That’s how everything came about. They invited me and I was like, ‘Heck yeah, I’ll do it!’”
Vodnik struggled somewhat with his command during his two appearances in the tournament, but gave up just one unearned run and one hit. In his first outing against Great Britain he walked two batters but got out of the inning unscathed. In the elimination match against Italy, Vodnik hit a batter who then scored on a fielding error after the next man up singled.
Newcomer Brennan Bernardino, received via trade this off-season from the Boston Red Sox, also joined the Rockies’ Mexican delegation with Vodnik.
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