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Tebow takes hot streak to a new level in narrow loss

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One of the more interesting phenomena in professional sports is when an impressive individual performance happens amid a team loss.

In recent memory, players like Tom Brady, who set a Super Bowl record for passing yards in a loss to the Eagles, and LeBron James, who posted monstrous numbers in a meek four-game NBA Finals sweep at the hands of the Warriors, have both fallen into that pit.

And while a Double-A regular season game isn’t quite as prestigious as a Super Bowl or the NBA Finals, the Binghamton Rumble Ponies’ Tim Tebow found himself in similar territory Monday.

The immensely popular Tebow took his sophomore baseball campaign to another level in a 5-3 road loss to the Portland Sea Dogs.

Tebow went a solid 3-for-4 from the plate, including a pair of RBIs. It’s the second time this season that he’s registered three hits.

But it wasn’t just Tebow’s red-hot bat that impressed. He also stole his first base of the season.

Tebow is starting July the same way he ended June, with his sizzling bat.

It’s even led to some of Tebow’s online critics to begrudgingly admit that he’s been playing well.

By any measure, Tebow had himself quite the Monday. It just happened to come in a loss.

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Unfortunately for the Rumble Ponies, the Sea Dogs scored five of the game’s final six runs and stormed back from a 2-0 deficit. The Sea Dogs were able to score those five runs in the 6th and 7th innings. The loss dropped the Rumble Ponies to 39-42 for the year.

Despite the general malaise attached to a sub-.500 season, Tebow himself has started to resemble a legitimate MLB prospect in just his second season of minor league baseball. He even earned an Eastern League All-Star berth.

For whatever faults sports pundit Skip Bayless may have, he has been an ardent Tebow supporter and has been emboldened with Tebow’s recent success. Bayless aptly described Tebow as the “rarest competitor” and called out Tebow’s critics.

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This is all to say that Tebow has come a long way since his up-and-down Class-A debut last season. He is still striking out too often, but has shown flashes of being a real player.

For Tebow’s supporters, it affirms what many had already assumed about his humble and gracious work ethic.

For Tebow’s detractors? It’s why they should keep their words soft and sweet, just in case they have to eat them.

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Bryan Chai has written news and sports for The Western Journal for more than five years and has produced more than 1,300 stories. He specializes in the NBA and NFL as well as politics.
Bryan Chai has written news and sports for The Western Journal for more than five years and has produced more than 1,300 stories. He specializes in the NBA and NFL as well as politics. He graduated with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Arizona. He is an avid fan of sports, video games, politics and debate.
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Hawaii
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Phoenix, Arizona
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English, Korean
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Sports, Entertainment, Science/Tech




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