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Carlos Carrasco Reveals He Once Ate Pizza 90 Straight Days at Spring Training

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Athletes tend to stick to a nutritional diet in order to keep their bodies in tip-top shape, but every once in a while, they can allow themselves a cheat day.

Key words being "once in a while."

Cleveland Indians pitcher Carlos Carrasco recently published a piece on The Players' Tribune to give fans an inside look at his journey from Venezuela to the majors. In it, he revealed an interesting tidbit about his first spring training camp as a 16-year-old, when he was with the Philadelphia Phillies:

During my first spring training, I ate Domino's pizza every day for dinner.