Then he went out and did enough.
Playing with Triple-A Round Rock, Hamilton went 2-for-3 with a pair of singles, drove in two runs and played four innings in center field to help his team to a 5-1 win against the New Orleans Zephyrs, the Triple-A affiliate of the Marlins. After grounding out to second in his first at-bat, he beat out a slow dribbler to third that scored a run in the third inning. In the fifth, he sent a flare into shallow right-center field for another RBI single. He left the game before the bottom of the fifth, long enough to help the Zephyrs draw a crowd of 6,976 for the night.