Baltimore right-hander Kevin Gausman will pitch to Greg Bird for the first time Tuesday night since the two were teammates at Grandview High School in Aurora, Colo., in a matchup both remember.
It was an intrasquad game when Gausman was a senior on his way to LSU and Bird a junior who caught Gausman.
But on this day, after years of trash talk between the two, they finally faced each other.
“Everyone wanted to see it,” Gausman said. “He had a couple of at-bats and then I threw a changeup that he hit out to dead-center.