1/27/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Jan. 27, 2016 
Gay would start throwing to Pence as his facility was closing down in the evening, and when Pence, who grew up near the Arlington, Texas facility, couldn't possibly take any more swings, the action would shift to the ping-pong table. The rest of Pence's development is a bit more well known. He turned into a second-round pick out of UTA, an All-Star with the Houston Astros, and a World Series champion with the Giants.
Read more and watch a video with Pence and Gay here: http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/pence-honor-coach-who-changed-my-life-major-ways
A pair of UT Arlington alums - Hunter Pence and Chris Gay - are featured as part "Coaching Corps Game Changer Awards" in the San Francisco Bay Area. The following is an excerpt from Pence to honor coach who 'changed my life in major ways' by Alex Pavlovic on CSNBayArea.com
SAN FRANCISCO - Hunter Pence walked into Cover All Bases more than a decade ago and asked the owner, Chris Gay, if it was true that players from the University of Texas at Arlington had access to the batting cage. Gay, an alum of UTA, had no idea what he was getting himself into when he said yes.
"I said you can come in anytime you want, not knowing he was going to be there almost every day and every night for eight months straight," Gay said. "I started throwing him BP and started playing ping-pong with him, and it turned into my wife calling at 11 at night and saying, 'Send Hunter home, it's time for you to come home.'"
Gay would start throwing to Pence as his facility was closing down in the evening, and when Pence, who grew up near the Arlington, Texas facility, couldn't possibly take any more swings, the action would shift to the ping-pong table. The rest of Pence's development is a bit more well known. He turned into a second-round pick out of UTA, an All-Star with the Houston Astros, and a World Series champion with the Giants.
Read more and watch a video with Pence and Gay here: http://www.csnbayarea.com/giants/pence-honor-coach-who-changed-my-life-major-ways
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