When he was promoted from the low-A Columbia Fireflies to the high-A St. Lucie Mets of the Florida State League in late June, Tim Tebow was the portrait of a struggling minor-leaguer.
Since that promotion, though, Tebow has been genuinely good — and he capped a recent run of form with a walk-off home run on Thursday.
That home run in the bottom of the seventh inning ended a double-header between the Mets and the Daytona Tortugas that also featured fellow former Gator Peter Alonso socking a game-winning dinger in Game 1.
Tebow’s homer, of course, was somewhat bigger news than Alonso’s.