{"id":371934,"date":"2026-07-14T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371934\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T01:26:07","slug":"kris-6-hooks-kid-reporter-trenton-beseda-interviews-pitcher-brett-gillis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/371934\/","title":{"rendered":"KRIS 6 Hooks Kid Reporter Trenton Beseda interviews pitcher Brett Gillis"},"content":{"rendered":"

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 One of our KRIS 6 Hooks Kid Reporters of the 2026 season, Trenton Beseda, sat down with Hooks pitcher Brett Gillis. If you would like to sign up you’re 6-13 year-old to be the next Kid Reporter, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Corpus Christi Hooks won 2 of their 6 games against a the Frisco RoughRiders team last week. Now they’re looking to rebound against the San Antonio Missions in a 3-game road trip that starts Friday before comeback back to Whataburger Field next week to host the Amarillo Sod Poodles.<\/p>\n

TRENTON BESEDA: Who inspired you to play baseball?<\/p>\n

BRETT GILLIS: I think it would probably be my older brother. He got into baseball when I was a little kid. I have two brothers, one older and one younger, and we all played baseball growing up. I just fell in love with the game at a young age, probably your age.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: My favorite baseball movie is The Sandlot. What’s yours?<\/p>\n

BRETT: Oh, that’s a good pick. I would probably have to go with The Benchwarmers. I used to watch that all the time growing up. A close second might be Bull Durham, honorable mention there. Benchwarmers, you don’t know benchwarmers? You gotta go home and watch that.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: What’s your favorite memory about Little League?<\/p>\n

BRETT: I used to play shortstop in Little League and I just loved, you play shortstop too? Yeah, so I just love taking grounders and hanging out with my teammates. We played at a field called Madison Field, and they had the Biggie Burgers at the Snack Shack, and we would always eat those, so that’s another good memory from Little League.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: If you to to Whataburger, what do you order? I order a double meat plain with just ketchup.<\/p>\n

BRETT: So I’m from Washington State, so I’ve only been to Whataburger a handful of times, but I really like their breakfast. The breakfast on a bun. So usually I go there and I get the breakfast.<\/p>\n

Part 2: KRIS 6 Hooks Kid Reporter Trenton Beseda interviews pitcher Brett Gillis<\/p>\n

TRENTON: What does baseball teach us about life?<\/p>\n

BRETT: Baseball is a game of failure, and life is, there’s a lot of failure in life, and it teaches you how to overcome it.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: What is your best advice for a kid like my age?<\/p>\n

BRETT: The biggest thing would be just playing it a lot, but my advice to you as a kid your age is to play a bunch of sports, not just baseball. Probably play soccer and football and basketball.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: I don’t play soccer, but I play football and baseball.<\/p>\n

BRETT: I would play soccer too. It teaches you how to be a better athlete.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: If you could change the rules of baseball, what would you change?<\/p>\n

BRETT: I would put the pitcher’s mound 6 ft closer so I could strike out more hitters.<\/p>\n

TRENTON: That’s smart. I said you couldn’t get out on base. That would be so much easier ha ha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 One of our KRIS 6 Hooks Kid Reporters of the 2026 season, Trenton Beseda,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,1816,131710,155,157,156,54259,103083,84991,6658,91579,131711],"class_list":["post-371934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-baseball","tag-brett-gillis","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-hooks","tag-hooks-kid-reporter","tag-kid-reporter","tag-kris-6","tag-kris-6-hooks-kid-reporter","tag-trenton-beseda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}