Henry Ramos: “I was surprised by the call”

According to Henry Ramos, the first days of September, some in which usually happen calls for promotion to the Major Leagues when the rosters of the teams expand, had already passed and therefore, no longer expected to go up for the first time in the Grands leagues in this 2021.

But the call came in anyway and surprised him.

“I thought it would be for next year. It surprised me, yes,” the gardener said.

Ramos, 29 and 11 seasons in the minor leagues made his debut Sunday with the Arizona Diamonbacks. He gave a hit in his only turn.

The call came Saturday night, after a game with his Arizona Triple A team, the Aces of Reno in Nevada. Tonight, moreover, Ramos was kicked out of the game after hitting a home run. Ramos said he was stuck in the “spicy” series against Tacoma (Seattle Mariners) for the first-place fight in the Oste Division of the Triple A West League. He was sent off because he celebrated his home run with a baton throw in the air, and walked the path in celebration, which upset opponents and led a player on the board to want to fight him. , whom Ramos in the process threw at him with his helmet.

Ramos was burning the Triple A when he was called. He was in his eleventh season in the minor leagues. He combines his participation there with the action in the Professional Baseball League Roberto Clemente with the Mayagüez Indians. He is 29 years old.

The call of the Diamonbacks was not the only one that surprised Saturday night for the maunabeño, brother of the prospect of the Giants of San Francisco, Heliot Ramos, And of the boricua goleador Héctor ‘Pito’ Ramos, Who is active in the first football division of Guatemala.

He called Heliot and couldn’t recognize him by phone. He called Pito and believed the goalie would leave Guatemala to go congratulate Arizona.

“I’ve never heard Heliot so happy and Pito told me he was coming out of Guatemala here,” he said.

More surprises happened that night, said Agapito’s son Ramos Velázquez and Norma Lebrón Patró.

“I called Papi tonight and I thought he was going to think something had gone wrong,” he said of the Puerto Rico morning call. “And Daddy was speechless because he’s sweated too and drunk tears to get to that point.”

One more surprise awaited Ramos in the dressing room of the Diamonbacks for his debut Sunday against the Seattle Mariners.

In the dressing room hangs the local game shirt with the number 14 on the back, the number used in Mayagüez in honor of his father.

“Everyone knows that when you get up here you don’t pick the numbers; they give you them, and they give you high numbers. When I saw the t-shirt, I smiled because I thought God’s things are like that,” he said.

What did not surprise him was the curve that threw him right Erik Swanson his first round in the Major Leagues. This happened in the seventh inning on Sunday, when Ramos came in to bat up for Tyler Gilbert in front of Swanson.

Ramos waited for the curve to Swanson and gave him a center line for his historic first single.

The boricua smiled and bowed to the sky as he reached first base.

“God has been with me all this time. I got the dream I had from before I was drafted,” he said.