At Home Plate - Michael Cuddyer's road to the mound

At Home Plate

Written by Bjoern Hartig (Contact & Archive) on July 27, 2011

The Twins' Michael Cuddyer

Photo by Keith Allison, used underĀ creative commons license.

On FoxSports, Michael Cuddyer tells the story about him pitching in the eigth inning of Monday's blowout loss and what it meant to him:

Some kids pretend to be hitters; some kids pretend to be pitchers. Then there are some kids, like me, who will not relinquish being their favorite player and will use that player to pitch even if heā€™s a hitter. Don Mattingly was the starting pitcher in 500 or so games in my backyard. Ā ...

... Whatever our guys threw up there, the Rangers hit it. Before we knew it, we were down 18-1 in the fifth inning. When we got to the top of the seventh, Gardy came up to me and asked how mad I would be if he put Trevor Plouffee in to pitch. ...

... And then, one hot Monday night in Texas, I got to be a major league pitcher. Who knows? Maybe Don Mattingly would have fared just as well as he did when he went 500-0 all of those years ago in my backyard.

Very nice story! I think Cuddyer is more happy about the scoreless inning than about most home runs he hit.

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