Robert Hassell III made trips to the Little League World Series in 2013 and 2014. He still carries those baseball memories with him.
Baseball players were once kids, standing in their backyards, daydreaming about that moment. Oh, come on, you knowmoment. At the plate with two outs in the final inning. With the game hanging in the balance and the screaming crowd on its feet.Robert Hassell III was still just a child, not a full-grown ballplayer, when that daydream became reality. For Hassell, now a minor leaguer in the Washington Nationals’ system, it happened in the 2014 Little League World Series.
Before the San Diego Padres made Hassell a first-round draft pick in 2020, and the Nationals and Padres made him a key piece of the Juan Soto trade last summer, he was a little leaguer from Tennessee. And in one Little League World Series game, Hassell felt the joy and anguish of baseball.The 2014 trip to Williamsport, Pa., was Hassell’s second straight to the Little League World Series, but he didn’t play as much the year prior.
Hassell watched a fastball for a strike and swung through another before avoiding a high fastball that could’ve ended the game if he had chased it. Then he got a pitch right down the middle, put his foot down and …Well, before Hassell took his swing, it’s important to note that Hassell’s dad — Robert Hassell II — knew what would happen. He was sitting beyond the left field wall; most family members were behind the team’s dugouts.
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