Sanchez didn’t just compete against teams- she scared them into preparing game-plans just to stop her. The left-handed pitcher went 13-1 with a 1.35 ERA, 12th in the PSAL, and struck out 95 batters in 93.2 innings to help the Commodores reach the sem
Sanchez didn’t just paralyze teams from the mound. She batted .565 with a .661 on-base percentage, a .913 slugging percentage with 20 stolen bases and 29 runs scored. Once she reached base, she was a blur of legs and arms propelling her around the diamond, which always looked small whenever she was aboard.
“We had it in our head that [to win the game] we had to get her out,” said Tottenville’s coach, Cathy Morano, who offered Sanchez the ultimate compliment when she admitted, after escaping Bayside 5-4 in the semis, that she was concerned her players were focusing too much on stopping Sanchez and not enough on the rest of the players.
