Before he pitched on Saturday for Miami, former Royal Edinson Volquez took to Instagram to post a tribute to Dominican Republic countryman Yordano Ventura on the occasion of what would have been Ventura’s 26th birthday:
“Miss you broth HBD to Ace Ventura one love,” he wrote to accompany a picture of them together.
Then Volquez somehow concocted one of those things that was simply too good to be true, the sort of tale that would have been rejected by Hollywood for being too preposterous.
On this of all days, Volquez unfurled a no-hitter against Arizona, the very notion of which induces waves of chills merely in typing the words.