Ace Reese is having an incredible start to his professional baseball career.
Reese, the No. 24 pick in the 2026 Draft to the Mariners, launched his second home run on Tuesday to go along with a pair of doubles. The 3-for-4 night helped lead Single-A Inland Empire to a 10-7 win over Ontario at ONT Field. It also meant Reese now has at least one hit in seven of his first eight games, five times going for multiple hits.
Reese, Seattle’s new No. 8 prospect, left the yard (literally, the ball bounced out of the stadium) in the first inning. He pounced on a down-and-in pitch, using his powerful lefty stroke to deposit it in deep right field and give Inland Empire an immediate 1-0 lead.
Reese led off the sixth inning with an opposite-field double. Fellow 2026 draftee Jake Brown drove him in later on a groundout. Reese walked with the bases loaded in the seventh, winning a six-pitch battle.
Reese then put the bow on his night in the ninth. He lined another double to the gap in right-center field, driving in his third RBI to tie the game at 7 apiece. Henry Ford homered in the ensuing at-bat, giving Reese his third run scored and Inland Empire a four-run final frame for the win.
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To say Reese has been on a tear in his first eight games would be an understatement. The 21-year-old third baseman is slashing .556/.571/.926 -- yes, that’s a .926 slugging percentage -- to go alongside two homers and four doubles. He’s also driven in 10 and walked five times to just four strikeouts.
The former Mississippi State and Houston standout mashed 45 homers in his final two collegiate years to earn him a 60 grade in the power department, and it sure has shown up in the early going professionally.