Cuas pitches Grand Street to its biggest win of the year
Having homered once already that day, Juan Rodriguez stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded in the top of the fifth to try to extend Telecomm’s 4-3 lead when Grand Street Campus made the decision to remove starting pitcher Emanuel Castellano from the game.
With the wind blowing hard and the rain increasing, Grand Street manager Steve Martinez went with his best pitcher with the game on the line — the 6-foot-2 senior Alexander Cuas.
“(Rodriguez) hit a home run earlier and I knew that it was on a curveball,” Cuas said. “I saw that so I wanted to see how he handled my fastball away. He likes to pull the ball so I knew that if I kept throwing him fastballs away that I could get him out.”