OAKLAND, Calif. — When New York Yankees reliever Lou Trivino bought a faucet on his shoulder as he warmed up in the bullpen it was to alert him that he had on the wrong jersey: the No. 50 belonging to Jameson Taillon as an alternative of his personal 56.
Trivino had pulled off his sweatshirt to throw pitches on a cool Friday night time on the Coliseum, and the issue turned clear. He started to heat up in case he was wanted to change Wandy Peralta, who surrendered an RBI single to pinch-hitter Dermis García however completed the 2-hour, 50-minute recreation for his third save as New York beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2.
“I don’t know. It happens,” Trivino mentioned. “… I was warming up. I wasn’t even paying attention.”
A bat boy scurried out with the suitable jersey, and Trivino made a fast change.
Trivino, who was traded by the A’s to New York on the deadline together with Frankie Montas, mentioned he wasn’t certain who informed him in regards to the mix-up. He laughed all of it off, saying, “It wasn’t the first time, it’s probably not the last.”
So he had completed it earlier than? “Oh, yeah, who hasn’t?” he cracked and agreed that subsequent time he might attempt on Aaron Judge’s No. 99 for slightly enjoyable.
Trivino had joked that he wished some consideration since he wasn’t taking part in. He bought all of it proper.
“I didn’t know that,” Judge mentioned, grinning, “I’ll have to get on him.”