Diamondbacks Prospect Strikes Out Five Batters in a Single Inning

Jhosmer Alvarez pulled off the rare feat against the Inland Empire 66ers. In this story: The 1,922 fans who showed up to Tuesday’s Class A game between the Visalia Rawhide and Inland Empire 66ers got to see something very few baseball fans have ever seen. In the top of the seventh inning, Visalia pitcher Jhosmer Alvarez struck out an improbable five batters. Yes, you read that right. Five strikeouts in one inning. Here's the sequence of events. Alvarez struck out Kevyn Castillo looking. Then he got Dario Laverde to chase a pitch in the dirt for strike three, but the...