Talking about Red Sox first-round draft pick Marcelo Mayer and the grand slam he hit on the final at-bat of his high-school career is pretty easy for Ayala High School baseball coach Chris Vogt — the opposing coach that day.
Primarily, of course, the fact that Mayer’s final at-bat came in a Southern California regional playoff game meant that Ayala beat Mayer’s Eastlake High School squad — an 8-6 victory made (slightly) more tense by Mayer’s seventh-inning heroics.
“I told my pitching coach, ‘This kid’s not going to win the game,'” Vogt told Boston.