Devin Smeltzer celebrated his 22nd birthday yesterday with a start in last night’s California League Division Series. Although he did not pitch long enough to qualify for the win, he saw his teammates score and score some more to get the victory and even the series.
Smeltzer has always loved playing baseball and was good at it from a young age, for example just before his tenth birthday he was to start his team’s championship game.
But he never got a chance to pitch that game because he was diagnosed with prostate and bladder cancer and had to start his treatment right away.