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Jose De Leon's Nine Strike Out Victorious Debut - 2016 Topps Now - #426

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In commemoration of Jose De Leon's fantastic debut game Topps has issued a 2016 Topps Now card for him. Go here to check it out and order. De Leon struck out nine Padres batters and walked none to record his first victory of his career. As you can imagine, Jose's entire family flew in to town to take in the game. Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com:

"I was pretty calm until I saw my brother," he said. "He went up to the rail and I just saw him. Usually when I pitch, I stick with my routine, but when I saw him I stopped my warmup and went up to him, hugged him, told him, 'I did it.