The Baltimore Orioles called up East Forsyth High School alum Connor Norby from the minors earlier this month, and when he chalked up his first big-league hit he made it count.
In his second MLB game and seventh at-bat, Norby clobbered a home run in the eighth inning on Tuesday, expanding his team’s lead over the Blue Jays in what would go down as a 10-1 victory.
The ball was later retrieved and returned to the 2018 high school graduate, who told reporters what he planned to do with the memento.
“Probably give it to my parents, because I’ll lose it,” he said. “Something like that. It’s going in a case somewhere.”
Norby, a standout player at East Forsyth, has fueled significant hometown pride from his former school and the broader community in recent years, particularly since his ascension to the MLB.
The infielder was a second-round MLB draft pick out of East Carolina University in 2021.
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