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Jumbo Shrimp's Glenn taketh, giveth homer

Marlins prospect robs long ball, belts grand slam in same inning
Alex Glenn hit eight homers with 37 RBIs over 62 games last season with the then-Jacksonville Suns. (Brian McLeod/MiLB.com)
May 2, 2017

In one inning, Alex Glenn took a souvenir away and gave one right back.The Miami outfield prospect flashed his glove and his bat during the fourth inning of Double-A Jacksonville's 12-11 win over Mobile on Monday at Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Glenn made a leaping grab at the left-field wall

In one inning, Alex Glenn took a souvenir away and gave one right back.
The Miami outfield prospect flashed his glove and his bat during the fourth inning of Double-A Jacksonville's 12-11 win over Mobile on Monday at Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville. Glenn made a leaping grab at the left-field wall in the top of the frame before delivering a grand slam to right in the bottom half.

With two outs and a runner on second base, Mobile's Zach Houchins lifted a 0-2 pitch from Jacksonville starter Mike Kickham to deep left, where Glenn began to drift toward the warning track. The 25-year-old then leaped with an outstretching right hand just over the wall to haul in the baseball and prevented the BayBears from doubling their lead to 4-0.
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The web gem appeared to activate the Jumbo Shrimp's bats.
Facing Mobile starter and Angels No. 27 prospectJake Jewell, third-ranked Marlins prospect Brian Anderson led off the bottom half of the inning with a walk before No. 27 John Norwood and David Vidal singled to load the bases for Glenn.
The 2012 12th-round pick took a hack on a 2-1 offering from Jewell and tucked it inside the foul pole down the right field to get Jacksonville on the board.

The Jumbo Shrimp tacked on four more runs to round out the inning and added one more in each of the following frames to take a commanding 10-2 lead, but a grand slam by Josè Briceño, who had six RBIs on the day, in the seventh fueled a nine-run rally over two innings by the BayBears.
Anderson took it from there, belting a game-tying homer to lead off the eighth before providing a walk-off RBI double to center in the ninth to win the slugfest for Jacksonville. Norwood and Taylor Ard also went yard.

Michael Peng is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MichaelXPeng.