Miami, Arizona athlete Gabe Escobedo galvanizes mining community

Miami calls alone the copper heart of the planet.

A quaint Western city linked to  Globe with numerous of the 2,000 or so citizens living on a picturesque hillside off of U.S. Highway 60 and Point out Route 77, it boasts a single of the ideal Mexican food eating places in the point out — Guayo’s El Rey — and perhaps the best 3-activity athlete in Arizona — Gabe Escobedo.

Crowds have gravitated towards just about every recreation he has played since his sophomore 12 months, and, during the COVID-19 period, Escobedo has galvanize the Globe-Miami mining community like no other athlete in some time. Maybe at any time.

No make any difference what ball he picked up — soccer, basketball or baseball — magic transpired.

He is now deep into his ultimate season of baseball that could switch to 2A championship gold. The Vandals are 24-4 and rated No. 2 by the Arizona Interscholastic Affiliation, at the rear of Scottsdale Christian, in the convention.

The 6-foot-2, 180-pound Escobedo has performed each and every position. He is 9-1 with a 1.80 ERA on the mound, and is hitting .571 with 52 hits, 15 doubles, 6 triples, three home runs and 47 RBIs. In 80 vocation varsity baseball game titles, he is hitting .520 with 109 RBIs.

In 26 varsity soccer game titles in his job, the senior racked up 3,136 getting yards and 58 touchdowns. He also played quarterback in buy to get the ball in his arms on as many plays as possible.