But today is Jackie Day, so Gore will be wearing No. Or at least that’s what would be happening if Gore was making his debut on any other day. 4, so Gore taking Snell’s rotation spot is the rare case of a single-digitized pitcher being replaced by another single-digitized pitcher. So he’ll become the fourth pitcher to wear No.
1) and is slated to make his MLB debut tonight for San Diego, replacing the injured Blake Snell. But Patiño has now leapfrogged ahead of Gore.Īnd that’s where it gets interesting: Gore just got called up yesterday (as expected, he’s been assigned No. 1 and was widely expected to be called up at some point this season, would have the distinction of being MLB’s third 1-clad pitcher.
I had expected that Padres prospect MacKenzie Gore, who also wears No. I didn’t realize that Patiño, who wore No. 1 (following Matt Young of the 1990 Mariners and Shun Yamaguchi of the 2020 Blue Jays). He lasted only 13 pitches before exiting with an injury, but that was enough to make him, by my count, just the third pitcher in MLB history to wear No. Let’s start with something I completely missed earlier in the week: Right-handed pitcher Luis Patiño started Monday night’s game for the Rays. This is the kind of trivia-nerd bonanza that totally pushes my buttons, so I’m excited to tell you all about it.
Good morning! A bunch of different uni-numerical storylines will be colliding on the baseball diamond today.
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