Caleb Freitas-Fields made his first mark on the Big Island baseball scene in 2011 when the ace right-hander pitched a Hilo 12-and-under team to a state PONY League championship.
Freitas-Fields contributed as a freshman at Waiakea in 2013, delivered a complete game a year later in a BIIF championship-clinching victory against Hilo and was an all-league third baseman for the Warriors in 2015.
However, his steady progression ended when he didn’t play baseball his senior season.
While it may have appeared that Freitas-Fields’ baseball career was going to finish much more quietly than it started, that all ended Friday with one crack of the bat at the RBI World Series.