Kenosha Twins switch-hitter Matt Morse got on a hot streak early in the 1991 season, The Kenosha News wrote.
After going 2 for 3 in one early May game, he'd raised his average to .422, after the team had had several games postponed due to weather, The News wrote.
"I'm just trying to get base hits and hit the ball where the pitcher pitches it ...," Morse told The News then, "but, really, lady luck has a lot to do with this game."
For Morse, his luck would run out that season, and in his career. He ended with a .226 average. That season, his second, also proved his last. He topped out at single-A.
Morse's career began in 1990, taken by the Twins in the 19th round of the draft out of the University of Michigan.
Morse started with the Twins at rookie Elizabethton. He hit one of several team home runs early in a July game, The Johnson City Press wrote.
"It was one of those days when the ball's flying out of here," Morse told The Press. "Who knows why, you can't explain it."
Morse saw 63 games at Elizabethton overall. He hit .251, with three home runs.
Morse then moved to single-A Kenosha for 1991. He hit a bases-loaded double in a May game, clearing the bases, The South Bend Tribune wrote.
"He threw me his best pitch," Morse told The Tribune of the pitcher. "I had two strikes one me. It was all I could do to make contact."
Morse got into 87 games on the year. He hit .226 to end his career.
- Johnson City Press, July 26, 1990: Twins rout Mets, keep streak alive
- Kenosha News, May 9, 1991: Twins Notes
- South Bend Tribune, May 15, 1991: Twins' four-run seventh stops S.B. Sox streak
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