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Made his 11th Opening Day roster and his fourth start also , and Jose and brothers Bengie and Yadier make up one of only 18 trios of brothers to play in the major leagues Their father, Benjamin Sr. Appeared in a career-high games and his 80 starts at catcher were one shy of his career high 81 starts for the Yankees Threw out The Rays staff pitched to a 3. LHP for the year Threw out 12 of 36 attempted base stealers During his career has thrown out of attempted base stealers, a percentage of Picked off two base runners, one of nine major league catchers with more than one pickoff in During his career, pitchers have combined for a 3.

In August and September caught year-old Henderson Alvarez's last 8 starts of the season and the Jays prized rookie worked to a 3. The Jays were with him in the lineup, compared to without Has not started back-to-back games behind the plate since Aug , Homered in his first at-bat of the season on April 2 vs.

MIN off Francisco Liriano in a win Was batting. Has gone 7-for The last catcher in the Majors to record four caught stealing in one game, all on straight steals was Charles Johnson with FLA on Sept.

ERA: Posted a 3. Caught five-of potential basestealers Ranks fourth among active catchers with a Among Major Leaguers with at least 40 games at C in , ranked fourth with a 3. Made his seventh career Opening Day roster, second straight with the Yankees Hit grand slam 1 and was 1-for-4 with 1SH on Apr.

Kansas City Was placed on the day disabled list on May 8 with a strained left quadriceps muscle Was his first career Major League appearance at 3B In Sept. Tampa Bay, was 3-for-3 with 1RBI and 2BB, setting a season high in hits, reaching base five times a game for the first time in his career.

Led the Major Leagues with a Made his sixth career Opening Day roster and first with the Yankees Seattle, snapping a 23AB hitless streak with his sixth-inning single Tampa Bay Oakland, after entering the game defensively in the 10th inning at C Baltimore, a two-run shot in the fourth inning off Chris Waters In 29 games with the Yankees, hit.

Hit safely in 12 of his 16 starts with the Yankees, including five multi-hit games Seattle before being removed for PH Posada in the seventh Finished the season with 14H in his final 38AB and batted. Began the season with the Angels, batting. The catcher, though, was unable to claim the everyday starter role for the Angels as rookies Jeff Mathis and Mike Napoli also saw time behind the plate.

Molina hit. He threw out of potential base-stealers, an impressive percentage of BL: Did that day end up motivating you to become not only a better ballplayer — in terms of choosing your bat, at least — but maybe a better son as well?

BM: Yes, very much. That day probably turned me around. And I said to myself, "I'll never do it again," and I never did it. I never disrespect my dad on the field. But I also took it as a lesson for me, not only because he is my dad, but if I did it to him I could do it so easy to so many other people, and I didn't want that. I wanted to become a model for my brothers, a guy that my brothers could see and follow. So I took it serious and I went that route.

What do you remember about that day? BM: Well, that day we got in early, and I remember having fun with him at the stadium just playing catch. But then also, I remember being in the dugout, being with all the men. And I didn't know how to act. I didn't know, I was just watching. And whenever my dad wasn't hitting, I wasn't watching the game.

I was just playing around with a couple kids that were there. But I remember when he came up to bat, and he said, "This game is over guys. I am going to hit a home run to left. But everybody thought he was just kidding, because right field was so short, and he is saying left field. Nobody took him too serious. And he went over there, and he hit it out, man.

And I remember everybody chasing out of the dugout. I don't know, I mean I'm so young, I just saw everyone running out of the dugout, so I went and followed. You know, I went with him to home plate and celebrate. But these are grown men, and I was so little that my mom was so worried about me, and she started yelling for somebody to pick me up.

And then finally after, my dad, he saw me and picked me up. And that is the first memory I have. My dad had three sons, yes, but he had thousands of kids and thousands of sons because he was a coach. BL: Your father raised three sons who made it to the Major Leagues. That's unlikely enough. Each made it as a catcher, that's a little more unlikely. And you and your brothers have each earned two World Series rings. Your father must have been some coach. At age 6, when he was old enough to play Little League, no team in his home town had an open roster spot.

Benjamin stepped in, recruited other youngsters like Bengie who had been overlooked, and formed a squad that gained entry into a neighboring circuit. The uniform colors were yellow and black, like the Pittsburgh Pirates and Roberto Clemente. A national hero in Puerto Rico, Clemente was revered for his phenomenal athleticism, social activism, and charitable endeavors. But it was Clemente. Who was going to argue? During this period the budding ballplayer was involved in no fewer than four organized games a week.

Until then youngsters on the island were signed as free agents. Although Bengie had been invited and participated in several major-league tryouts during the year and was a pitcher, outfielder, and infielder, he was not among those selected.

One bright spot that summer was that he took his first trip from the island. They won the regionals held in Arkansas and moved onto Oregon to compete against other regional winners.

The team got to the championship game but lost. Molina led the tournament in RBIs and stolen bases. He struggled in adjusting to college and the difference in climate. Although there were Puerto Rican players at the school, he had pangs of homesickness and loneliness. He also had to learn the English language.

Nonetheless he persevered. As for baseball, he also had to learn a new key role. The Arizona Western roster had a dearth of shortstops. When one of the players from Puerto Rico informed Matadors coach John Stratton that Molina had played middle infield, Stratton asked the originally slated outfielder if he would switch to shortstop. Molina readily agreed. In his first season, out of 14 freshmen, the team voted Molina Rookie of the Year.

In late May , Molina went home to await the amateur draft. Its season ran from January to June with playoffs in July. The first week in June the player draft was conducted, but once again he remained undrafted. Molina returned to Arizona Western. At the end of his second season with the Matadors, Bengie had a.

He had been named All-Conference. The team voted him its MVP. On June 1, , the major-league amateur draft commenced. Bengie was living, working, and playing semipro baseball in Puerto Rico, and for a third time he was passed over and remained unselected.

He chose not to return to Arizona Western that fall. Northern Alabama had made an overture to him but the scholarship offering fell through. Molina was finished playing baseball at the NCAA level. His personal life took center stage. As a freshman, Bengie had met a young woman, also a freshman, who had sparked his interest. The wedding took place in December Bengie and his bride resided in San Luis.

He took a job as a migrant field worker picking cauliflower in Yuma from sunrise to sunset. After the harvest, Molina worked at a Jack-in-the-Box fast-food restaurant located in his former college town handling the midnight-to-8 shift.

And the two would then return home together to Mexico to start the same routine all over again the very next day. Any down time Molina had, he did play baseball. He got a factory job, played Double-A baseball and attended weekly pro tryouts. By May he led the circuit in RBIs and was among the top five in home runs and batting average. But in late May he told his wife that his baseball career was over.

The years of being passed over swelled his emotions raw. In a symbolic act, Molina took his blue Pony baseball spikes, knotted the shoelaces together, and tossed the pair over some tangled power lines. Plans were that the couple would return to Yuma. He would take a job as a farm worker and study computers. Fate intervened. But his brother would not relent and Bengie acquiesced.

The Puerto Rican scout waved her off. But the American scout told Bengie to return at P. His brothers were catchers.