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MLB film ’93 MPH Tacos’ follows Dodgers’ Octavio Becerra

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MLB film ’93 MPH Tacos’ follows Dodgers’ Octavio Becerra

Author: Nathalie Alonso

Published on: 2022-09-30 13:21:56

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As a teenager growing up in the small town of Tepatitlán de Morelos in the Mexican state of Jalisco, Dodgers pitching prospect Octavio Becerra had a jammed-packed schedule: he went to school in the mornings, trained in the afternoons and spent evenings working. And it wasn’t any job: He was delivering meals and chopping up meat at his uncle’s taquería — a restaurant specializing in tacos.

“I struggled at first because I got tired, but then I could handle it,” says Becerra.

In addition to learning the art of making tacos, Becerra says the experience of juggling school, work and baseball taught his discipline, which paid off in a big way when he signed with the Dodgers in 2019 at the age of 18. At the time, the left-hander was the top-ranked prospect in the Mexican Baseball League, no doubt on account of…

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