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Cubs top prospect Almora shines in Cougars home debut

Albert Almora said he felt like he was "unleashed" when he was given the green light to return to the field following a wrist injury.

He wasn't kidding.

After a hot start to the 2013 campaign on the road — 8-for-15 (.571) with three doubles, three runs and two RBI — Almora didn't slow down in his debut at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark, the Kane County Cougars' home field.

In the first game of a doubleheader Saturday, Almora accounted for all four Cougars runs in a walk-off win, driving in two on a fifth-inning double and scoring a run in the third and seventh innings.