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After being called up a couple of days ago to join the Giants on their road trip, Chris Stratton made his big league debut today.
Chris Stratton making his MLB debut right now with the Giants
— Paul Jones (@PJ247Sports) May 30, 2016
Welcome to the bigs, @cstratton28 #SFGiants
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) May 30, 2016
Chris Stratton is on to make his major league debut. Whole lot of his family made the 5-hour trip from Tupelo.
— Andrew Baggarly (@extrabaggs) May 30, 2016
Stratton entered in the 8th inning to relieve Derek Law and struck out two batters en route to a 1-2-3 inning for the Giants.
Tupelo High/Mississippi State's Chris Stratton's strikes out two, pitches perfect half inning in MLB debut with SF. pic.twitter.com/tajcFHFI7m
— Robby Donoho (@RobbyDonoho) May 30, 2016
1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣ for @cstratton28 in the 8th. We'll take it!#Homegrown #SFGiants
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) May 30, 2016
The Giants ended up dropping the game 5-3, but something tells me that Stratton's performance will be the first of many at the major league level. It's always fun to see alumni of MSU play at the highest level, here's to hoping that Stratton will get plenty more opportunities to do so.