Utes First Basemen Alex Baeza is Golden

#10 Alex Baeza fields a sharp groundball at first base in game against Oregon State.In just the second game of the 2022 season, Utah first basemen, Alex Baeza’s Rawlings glove ripped.

“I put everything into that glove,” Baeza told Block U recently. “I made sure I was conditioning it, making sure the laces were all nice, everything was good. When it gave out on me it was the second game of the season at LMU. The leather ripped and it wasn’t repairable.”

Baseball players are notoriously superstitious and tend to cling to whatever patterns, behavior, or equipment they perceive is helping them succeed. So you could imagine how this glove ripping was a devastating loss. It wasn’t just any glove.…