Huber said Beacom was once a top 25 junior pitcher in Victoria. She has worked hard and improved rapidly, catching the eye of the Aces’ coaching staff, especially Peter Moylan, the Aces’ manager, who had a 12-season career as a pitcher with the Braves, the Dodgers and the Royals.
After watching Beacom zip the ball in a recent bullpen session, flinging it with good command and movement, Moylan turned to his bench coach, Jon Deeble, and said, “Jon, this girl needs to be on our team.”
“It had nothing to do with boy, girl, woman, man, whatever you call it,” Moylan said by telephone. “It was strictly that I was looking at what she was doing with the baseball, and it was fantastic. I wanted her on my team.”
Moylan believed that Beacom would flourish if he worked alongside Graeme Lloyd, a former M.L.B. Lefty who won World Series with Yankees in 1996, 1998. Huber agreed and Moylan reached out to Beacom for her opinion about joining the parent club.
“I couldn’t believe it,” she said. “I was astonished.”
Within days she was pitching in a game, rattled with nerves at first, but able to regain her focus and determination — which impressed Huber the most — to pitch a scoreless inning on 17 pitches.
Brendan, her father, was overwhelmed by the spectacle and the atmosphere at the stadium and beyond. News of his daughter’s achievement swirled the globe and was reported by CNN, The Guardian in England, NBC News, Fox Sports and many other outlets.
Source: NY Times
