Last night’s 2011 World Series opener featured a situation that even the biggest baseball hater would love.
The St. Louis Cardinals sent Arthur Rhodes to the mound with two outs in the eighth inning as the left handed specialist to face the Texas Rangers top hitter, lefty Josh Hamilton.
Rhodes and Hamilton were team mates earlier this season, that is until the Rangers cut Rhodes in early August, essentially deciding they would rather pay Rhodes to hit the road rather than to stay.
The Cardinals swooped in and signed Rhodes and only are paying $100,000 for his services. The team that cut him, the Texas Rangers, are paying another $1,000,000 of his salary.
So, Rhodes came in the game last night in the position any person in the world would love to be in. He had the chance to stick it to his old employer that got rid of him for not doing a good enough job.
And he did. Rhodes got Hamilton to pop out to center field to end the eighth inning.
The Cardinals went on to win game one, 4-3.
Now that’s a win win, and shows one of the thousands of reasons to love baseball.
2 comments:
so because he was on both teams during the year he will get a world series ring regardless who wins... correct??
That's a great question, but no Arthur Rhodes would not receive a ring from Texas if they won because he was cut from their team.
Sorry for the delayed response!
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