Texas A&M freshman phenom Nico Partida is on a roll as the Aggie baseball side recovers from a disappointing start to the SEC schedule with a 6-game win streak. Partida has had 12 hits and 14 RBIs over this stretch, which certainly helped his case when Perfect Game named him Midseason Freshman of the Year.

KBTX anchor Nick Kuzma asked Partida about the hot start to his collegiate career. Kuzma reported, “His secret? Chocolate chip pancakes.”

The press response in question begins with Partida shouting out the mentally tough Aggie team, saying, “We’re just a really good team with responding, and I feel like all of us show up every day, and it’s a new day.” This fortitude certainly helped Texas A&M recover from losing their first two conference series and sweep Missouri, a series that infamously removed the team from postseason contention last year.

Partida then showed appreciation for his “lucky pancakes in the morning, which can get us right.”

Kuzma added that the lucky cakes were chocolate chip pancakes, a breakfast delicacy all of us surely enjoyed in our teenage years. It’s uncertain just how this meal became a lucky tradition for Partida, however, or if this is even a tradition at all. 

Texas A&M baseball posted on their official Twitter account that Partida had been given a task for this press conference: sneaking the word “pancake” into his reply. This might explain why Partida first talked about mental fortitude, then abruptly shifted to pancakes and pregame traditions, before finishing on the note of the importance of having fun in order to remain resilient.

Partida was not the only Aggie to receive such an assignment; Gavin Grahovac was asked to include the word "cherry" into his response. When asked what the ball looked like as it approached his hot bat, Grahovac first joked that it doesn't look like a beach ball, a common cliche, but that he is "seeing [the ball] well now." He then explained that the ball looked “a little bigger than a cherry… like more of a bowling ball.”

Whether Partida’s pancake-inspired success is real or fake, the Aggies should continue practicing any new traditions they have picked up over the last two weeks as they head into a series against Vanderbilt.

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