When Justin Wilson came on to try to save the early half of Tuesday’s double-header, everyone wondered why Brandon Morrow wasn’t available. He had battled fatigue recently and Joe Maddon has been very judicious with the closer as a result, but the actual reason for Morrow’s absence raised even more questions.
As he tells it, he had been struggling to remove his pants at 3am after a game in St. Louis and felt back spasms while fighting with the left leg of his trousers. This is either the lamest excuse of all time or it’s a case of Morrow being extremely candid.