Jonny Gomes is one of the more entertaining players in baseball. So when the Atlanta Braves were forced to call on him as an emergency relief pitcher Friday night, you’d better believe he put on a show.
The Braves already had gone through five pitchers in eight innings and trailed the New York Yankees by nine runs when they recruited Gomes to come off the bench in the ninth.
Naturally, the former Boston Red Sox sparkplug was pretty fired up for his first big-league pitching appearance, but that was quickly tempered when the first batter he faced, outfielder Chris Young, launched a monster homer on the fourth pitch he saw.