West Fargo's Andy Young records first big-league hit

By Tom Mix
NDHSAA Media Specialist

WEST FARGO – Just several days removed from his debut in Major League Baseball on Saturday, August 1, former West Fargo High School baseball standout Andy Young got to prove his hitting prowess at the plate for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Young entered Tuesday’s game (August 4) against the Houston Astros in the sixth inning as a defensive replacement at second base. He remained in the game for two at-bats leading off the seventh inning with a double off Houston reliever Bryan Abreu for his first MLB base hit. Young later scored in the inning.

In the eighth inning, Young singled. Arizona lost the game 8-2 and is now 3-8 in the shortened MLB season.

Young, a 2012 graduate of West Fargo High School, was the 2012 North Dakota High School Coaches Association Class A Senior Player of the Year in 2012 and also was named the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year that spring helping the Packers to a state championship.

Young is the 18th player born in North Dakota to appear in a MLB game according to Baseball Almanac joining the likes of Darin Erstad, Travis Hafner, Rick Helling, Chris Coste and current big leaguer and fellow West Fargo native Matt Strahm of the San Diego Padres.    

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