Salinas Spurs hitter Ken Briggs started the 1991 season slowly, hitting .197 by mid-May, but he got going in this game, The Salinas Californian wrote.
Briggs knocked two singles and a solo home run to help end an 11-game Salinas losing streak, The Californian wrote.
"It's encouraging," Briggs told The Californian afterward. "We're happy. But we've got to come back to do it again Tuesday. But the clubhouse will be smiling."
Briggs had that game in his third season as a pro. He went on to see just one more. He topped out at high-A.
Briggs' career began in 1989, taken by the Twins in the 24th round of the draft out of Chapman University in California. Briggs went to Chapman out of Cypress College. Briggs was also credited as Kenny Briggs.
Briggs played with the Twins at single-A Kenosha and rookie Elizabethton. He saw 43 games between them and hit .253.
For 1990, he moved to independent rookie Salt Lake City. He got into 35 games there and hit .227. He then arrived at Salinas for 1991. He saw 66 games and hit .229.
Briggs then appears to have returned to Cypress as a coach and spent the summer of 1992 as a coach for the semi-pro Santa Maria Indians. That June, his team had trouble getting an extra base hit in a game.
"In baseball you need the clutch hit and we didn't get it," Briggs told The Santa Maria Times. "We just left too many people on base."
Briggs then returned for one final season in 1995 with independent Long Beach. He saw 40 games and hit .299 to end his career.
- Salinas Californian, May 13, 1991: Salinas Spurs bats smash losing streak to smithereens
- Santa Maria Times, June 18, 1992: Tigers beat Indians in extra innings, 3-2
Made the Majors:1,426-31.8
Never Made Majors:3,056-68.2%-X
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