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"when he was playing tee ball at the field across from bishop kelley, one of the moms
came up to me and said, 'you know he'll be in the big leagues someday right?'"
IT PROVED TO BE QUITE AN OMEN FOR THE KEUCHEL FAMILY... THEIR SON DALLAS WOULD NOT ONLY
DEVELOP INTO A GREAT PITCHER... BUT A PLAYER WHO ALWAYS SHINED IN BIG MOMENTS...
*bishop kelley finals*
A TWO-TIME STATE CHAMPION AT BISHOP KELLEY... TO ONE OF THE STARS OF THE 2009 COLLLEGE WORLD
SERIES...
BUT TO GO FROM GREAT AMATEUR PLAYER TO A BIG LEAGUE PITCHER, WHO SAW THAT ONE COMING?
"I did. Especially after he got drafted, I had a timetable in the back of my mind. But
I never told anybody because I didn't want to jinks it."
IT WASN'T LIKE IT WAS GUARANTEED... JUST LIKE ANY OTHER PROFESSIONAL PLAYER, THERE'S A LEARNING
CURVE AT EACH LEVEL OF DEVELOPMENT...
"each time I moved up to the next level I got bounced around a little bit. But it made
be better going into the next year. And I think this year coming in, I knew what I needed
to do."
AND ON SUNDAY JUNE 17TH... IT ALL CAME TOGETHER... "it's always fun to watch someone make their
big-league debut and we're doing just that with Dallas Keuchel here in Arlington."
AGAINST ARGUABLY THE BEST OFFENSIVE TEAM IN BASEBALL, KEUCHEL BATTLED THROUGH 5 COMPLETE
INNINGS... ULTIMATELY GIVING UP JUST 1 RUN...
WHILE DALLAS DIDN'T GET OVERWHELMED BY THE MOMENT, IT WAS SURREAL TO HIS FAMILY IN THE
STANDS...
"words can't describe what it's like seeing your kid on a major league mound."
"I cried. Throughout the first inning, I cried."
DALLAS FOLLOWED UP THAT FIRST APPEARANCE WITH A REMARKABLE FEAT... PITCHING A COMPLETE GAME
IN HIS 2ND MAJOR LEAGUE START... GIVING UP JUST 1 RUN...
BUT PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL IS A FUNNY THING... AFTER A FEW MORE RESPECTABLE STARTS, KEUCHEL
HAS BEEN DEMOTED TO TRIPLE-A FOR THE TIME BEING... BUT DALLAS KNOWS HE'LL BE BACK...
"what they told me was you're sitting pretty right now with everything that might be going
on over the all-star break or the end of the month at the trade deadline.... I'm just trying
to do my job in oklahoma city or where ever I might pitch at for another shot."
JOHN LAWS... TULSA'S CHANNEL 8 SPORTS...