SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The bucket of Gatorade doused Peoria Javelinas manager Luis Salazar on Saturday with the usual mixture of cold, wet, sticky goo. His club had just defeated the Mesa Solar Sox, 8-2, at Scottsdale Stadium to win this year's Arizona Fall League championship.
This was a happy moment for the 61-year-old native of Venezuela who has endured more than enough grief in recent years. The championship came just a little more than six years after Salazar lost his left eye in a freak baseball accident.
"Oy, I'm soaking wet," said a gleeful Salazar, who will manage again in the Braves' system this year, moving to the Class A Florida State League in Kissimmee, Fla.