During his 13-year career, baseball player Drew Maggi has seen plenty of pitches. Over more than 1,150 career games, he has stepped up to the plate nearly 4,500 times and taken five figures’ worth of balls and strikes.
But Wednesday night was different.
“I can’t explain how I was feeling in the box. I didn’t even know what to do,” Maggi said after the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 8-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers — his very first under the spotlights of a Major League Baseball team after a career spent in minor league baseball.
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