SAN FRANCISCO >> Dodgers pitcher Ross Stripling said he didn’t call anyone on the occasion of his first major league game Friday.
“Anyone I would call is here,” he said hours before he nearly became the first pitcher since Bumpus Jones in 1892 to throw a no-hitter in his debut.
Stripling set aside tickets for 21 people. The group included his parents, his fiancee, her parents, friends from high school and college, and some long-time family friends.
They all went to breakfast together in the morning, then sat through two and a half hours of rain and cold at night to watch Stripling throw 7 1/3 innings against the San Francisco Giants without allowing a hit.