Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer
COLONIE -- These are the moments baseball players -- from little league to the majors -- dream about. Two outs. Ninth inning. Tying run on base. And you are coming to bat.
That's what Jon Hambleton, a 6-foot-4, 235-pound rookie first baseman for the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs, faced as he strode to the home plate late Sunday afternoon at Heritage Park. He had his chance to be a hero.
The chance was taken away quick enough and the Dogs dropped a 3-1 Northern League game to the Adirondack Lumberjacks.
Hambleton, who hit 13 home runs for the University of Maine last year, was thinking long ball.
``Oh …
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