ST. LOUIS – Hector Rondon had just notched his first playoff save when the reporters inside Busch Stadium’s visiting clubhouse flocked toward his locker…to talk about how he got stuck in the bullpen bathroom on Friday night.
The Cubs closer has an easy-going, good-natured personality, creating none of the drama you normally see with ninth-inning artists. And the surreal moment sort of made sense after all the ups and downs in Rondon’s career.
The Associated Press ran the locked-in-the-bathroom story during Saturday’s 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, which Rondon finished by getting three groundballs outs and allowing only an infield single.