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He had a 3. Enjoy our content? Join our newsletter to get the latest in sports news delivered straight to your inbox! Your sports. Join Newsletter. The Angels saw him as their catcher of the future. In games he hit. From to , Molina was the bullpen catcher for Mayaguez. Just a few years older than Molina, Fasano was a Kansas City Royal and had made his major-league debut on April 3, A journeyman in the big leagues from to and then a coach, Fasano was named Double-A Manager of the Year in The two would sit together in the Mayaguez dugout and Fasano would endlessly pepper Bengie with game scenario questions.
Fasano showed Molina how to properly position himself behind the plate to give pitchers a bigger and better target as well as to get better calls from the umpires. Now only one step away from the majors, he batted. This inexplicable transaction nearly caused Molina to quit baseball.
However due to the strenuous intervention of Vancouver teammate Jovino Carvajal, a veteran minor leaguer, coupled with a telephone conversation with his father, Molina reconsidered and reported to the Double-A team.
His decision paid off. On September 21, , at Edison International Field in Anaheim before 33,, in the top of the ninth inning, Bengie Molina made his major-league debut. He was sent in to replace the purported catcher of the future, Todd Greene. Anaheim lost the game, , to the Texas Rangers. Molina got his first major-league at-bat on September 27 in a road win over the Oakland Athletics.
Angels manager Terry Collins sent the 5-foot, pound right-handed batter in as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning. Molina grounded out to third. Yet, for the seventh straight year, he found himself in the minors on opening day, at Triple-A Edmonton Pacific Coast League , where he batted. This time, it was not as a September call-up. Molina played in 31 contests, hit. Bengie opened as the Angels starting catcher.
Molina always felt that Collins had never sufficiently appreciated his abilities. With that ringing endorsement, in his first full season in the majors, Molina played in games, the most by an Angels catcher in a decade. He hit. He lived in Mexico with his nuclear family that offseason.
He accepted a multiyear deal for four years with an option. Although he was the regular catcher in , Molina had some friendly family competition for the spot. Hence the Molinas became the first pair of brothers to catch for the same major-league club since , when Lave and Amos Cross did so for the Louisville Colonels American Association. The Molinas became the 13th set of brothers to catch in the big leagues.
Under Scioscia, the Angels went from pretenders to contenders as they captured the American League pennant and then topped the San Francisco Giants in their first trip to the World Series.
October 27, , was a joyful day for the Molina tribe, as the Angels beat the Giants, , in Game Seven of the fall classic. Bengie Molina got his first championship ring. In Molina was having his best offensive year yet but his season was cut short by injury in early September. He batted. He received another Gold Glove.
On June 3, , Molina enjoyed the opportunity to play his first major-league game in Puerto Rico itself; the game was held at Estadio Hiram Bithorn, the same venue where his father had met Clemente.
Bengie Molina felt pressure to honor both his family and Puerto Rico. He could hardly have done better, starring in a Angels rout of the Montreal Expos before 10, fans including well over who were Molina family and friends. Bengie drove in three runs and tied a personal career high with four hits, including a home run.
The promising year crashed to a halt on September 3, when Molina was severely injured in a loss to the Minnesota Twins. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, he caught a relay throw and had Twins pinch-runner Dustan Mohr out by a few feet. The next day Molina had surgery to repair fractured radius and ulna bones above his left wrist.
He was out for the season. Molina faithfully worked out during the winter, but concentrated solely on his legs as he was directed to refrain from upper-body workouts. He also failed to properly hydrate himself during these specific exercise sessions and as a result he endured hamstring problems that plagued his performance in exhibition games and early regular-season contests.
At times he simply had to sit out games. In Molina was in the last year of his four-year deal. Molina went into self-imposed silence with the media until mid-August, but the Angels pitching staff spoke out in his defense. Molina was consigned to the disabled list from August 3 with a broken right index finger.
His season totals were. And in November Angels exercised their option on him for the following year. But in the offseason the team chose to sever ties. Over games Bengie posted a. On October 29 he was granted free agency.
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