Ishikawa Gets Brief Tour with Giants

May 31, 2006

He showed some pop in his bat, going 5-for-10 with three doubles, a triple and three RBIs in four games after being recalled from the Giants' Double A team in Connecticut last Thursday. In his first major league start on Friday, he went 3-for-4 and drove in three runs against Colorado.

Ishikawa had a short stint earlier in the year, again filling in for Niekro.

His performance will probably earn him another call up if Niekro goes down again or if the Giants need another bat. It's nice to see some U.S.-born Asian baseball players doing well.

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Harry Mok

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Editor in Chief Harry Mok wrote about growing up on a Chinese vegetable farm for the second issue of Hyphen and has been a volunteer editor since 2004. As a board member of the San Francisco and New York chapters of the Asian American Journalists Association, Harry has recruited and organized events for student members. He holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a graduate student instructor in the Asian American Studies Department.