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- Updated: August 8, 2016
HOUSTON — It’s been a wild 24 hours for rookie Tony Kemp, who made sparks fly in the Astros’ 5-3, 11-inning loss to the Rangers on Sunday afternoon at Minute Maid Park.
Battling a nasty toothache, the 24-year-old was out of Triple-A Fresno’s lineup Saturday night when the Grizzlies got word that the Astros were recalling Kemp to replace injured outfielder Colby Rasmus, who went on the 15-day DL with a cyst in his right ear.
“Our manager, Tony DeFrancesco, told me before the game, so that was probably the longest game I’ve ever had to sit through,” said Kemp, ranked by MLBPipeline.com as the Astros’ No. 16 prospect. “Just kind of waiting to catch the flight, catch the red-eye to get here.”
Kemp later hopped on a plane from Las Vegas to Houston, not even having enough time to get his tooth fixed until Sunday morning, just before the Astros took on the …
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