This is what movies are made from…
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
Nearly 2½ years after pitching a baseball became so frustrating and draining that he decided to call it a career, Rick Ankiel completed a most remarkable reinvention by making his major-league debut as an outfielder Thursday.The Cardinals called up the one-time pitching phenom and started him in right field against the San Diego Padres. A private welcome in the clubhouse that manager Tony La Russa called “enthusiastic” and “moving” went public in the first inning when a
standing ovation greeted Ankiel as he strode toward the batter’s box.
Then came the seventh inning… and the three-run home run that propelled the Cardinals to victory and inched them ever-so-closer to the first place Brewers (no matter how many times I read or write that – it just sounds wrong)
Good for you Rick..
Yeah, Yeah. Great Story. Couldn’t he have saved that crap for anyone but the padres.
(Not that the Cards needed his help since the Padres cannot score any runs)
ANd if you can’t score runs against THIS Cardinals rotation then… well, to borrow from EVERYONE’s favorite Star Wars characted Jar Jar Binks: Youza in trouble.