![]() 514 OBO in nine games since moving back to the seventh spot. 379 clip (11-for-29) with four doubles, a triple, six RBIs and a. 476 OBP in his first 16 games, and after that slump he hit at a. 2 spot before manager Fredi Gonzalez moved him back down to the seventh spot where he had initially flourished. Handling the stress of playing hasn’t presented much of a problem for La Stella, although he did make a costly error in his second game and endured a 3-for-41 hitting slump over 11 games, including eight games in the leadoff or No. Good thing is a lot of people have gotten in touch with me and said, ‘We’re coming to the game, we’ll be sitting in blah blah blah.’ A lot of people have gone and gotten their own tickets. I’m still working on some (tickets) right now. “Over these next four days it’s going to be pretty hectic. “Everybody - mom, dad, brother, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents,” he said before batting practice Monday afternoon. He had far more family members and friends coming to Citi Field during the four-game series. ![]() He literally had only hours to get to Boston for his first game, but his parents, brother and sister all made it to Fenway Park in time see him get two hits in his debut. La Stella was in his third full season of minor league ball when he got called up from Triple-A Gwinnett six weeks ago while the Braves were in Boston. John’s in frustration, transferring to Coastal Carolina, and playing two seasons there before the Braves selected him in the eighth round of the 2011 draft. The 25-year-old has come a long way since leaving St. “It might have been for a birthday part, to be honest with you,” he said, smiling, “to give you an idea of how young I was.” Monday marke the first time the kid who grew up a Yankees fan like dad had ever been to Citi Field, and La Stella could barely remember the only time he went to the Mets’ since-razed former home, Shea Stadium. ![]() I guess they wanted to get a shot of that.” “It was just a basement, the walls were all falling apart. “(The newspaper photographer) got some stuff with the basement with the pitching machines and stuff like that,” La Stella said of the visit from the local newspaper Monday.
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