{"id":906,"date":"2010-09-02T19:49:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T19:49:06","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dudastartsformets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northwoodsleague.com\/battle-creek-battle-jacks\/2010\/09\/02\/dudastartsformets\/","title":{"rendered":"Duda Starts for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><img alt=\\\"duda\\\" src=\\\"images\/stories\/duda.jpg\\\" width=\\\"436\\\" height=\\\"299\\\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\">Former Northwoods star Lucas Duda was put into the starting lineup by Jerry Manuel of the New York Mets Wednesday night.&nbsp; Duda, a 7<sup>th<\/sup> round pick of the Mets in 2007, started in left field against the National League East leading Atlanta Braves.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\">The 6&#8217;5&#8221; <st1:place w:st=\\\"on\\\">Southern  California<\/st1:place> product played for the Alexandria Beetles in 2006 where he hit .273 with eight home runs, 12 doubles and 49 RBI.&nbsp; During the summer of 2006, Duda was named to the NWL Postseason All-Star team and also earned the Silver Glove Award at 1<sup>st<\/sup> base.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\">Duda, a left handed hitter, was 0-for-3 on the night for the Mets before being removed from the game due to dehydration.&nbsp; The lefty faced Braves starting pitcher Tommy Hanson who was on a roll as a he threw a one hitter in 7.0 innings of work.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\">Before being called up, Duda had an impressive .284 career Minor League batting average with stops in Brooklyn (2007), St. Lucie (2008), <st1:city w:st=\\\"on\\\">Binghamton<\/st1:city> (2009\/10) and <st1:city w:st=\\\"on\\\"><st1:place w:st=\\\"on\\\">Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> (2010).&nbsp; In his four season of Minor League ball the <st1:place w:st=\\\"on\\\"><st1:city w:st=\\\"on\\\">Riverside<\/st1:city>, <st1:state w:st=\\\"on\\\">CA<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> native had 115 doubles, 47 home runs and 238 RBI.&nbsp; His promotion was due to his extremely strong 2010 season where he hit 40 doubles, 23 home runs and drove in 84 runs while playing in Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Buffalo.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\">Follow Duda in the Major Leagues at <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.northwoodsleague.com\/\\\">www.northwoodsleague.com<\/a> and <a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.newyorkmets.com\/\\\">www.newyorkmets.com<\/a>.&nbsp; <o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\\\"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;\\\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>The Northwoods League has more teams, plays more games, and draws more fans than any Summer Collegiate Baseball League in <st1:place w:st=\\\"on\\\">North America<\/st1:place>.&nbsp; Duda is the 71<sup>st<\/sup> NWL alumni to appear in Major League Baseball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Northwoods star Lucas Duda was put into the starting lineup by Jerry Manuel of the New York Mets Wednesday  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - 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