By Ed Piper
Emmy Cardenas attended La Jolla's baseball game Friday, May 15, at Lincoln to decide the league title.
Cardenas, the LJHS solo record-holder for home runs in a season and in a career until last week (May 14), was asked about first baseman Jacey Taylor's three home runs in Thursday's game against High Tech High. The trio of blasts broke Emmy's single-season record of 12, setting it to 13. Taylor tied Cardenas' career record at 27 homers.
Smiling, she said, "It was great. I was asking her before the third one, 'Have you ever hit three home runs in a game?' She said, 'No.' I haven't either--I hit two in a game.
"Then she it it (the third homer)."
The first shot was a line drive over the fence in center-right. "I didn't think it was going to go out," said Jacey to her teammates when she got back to the dugout.
After a reporter left, her other two home runs went to center-left, one into the planter with palm trees beyond centerfield.
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