Brad Wieck, a 6-foot-9, left-handed reliever, had one professional plate appearance – a walk, two years ago in Triple-A – when Padres manager Andy Green asked him to bat in the sixth inning Tuesday night against Mariners right-hander Cory Gearrin. The 27-year-old rookie wasn’t about to object (he grounded out to Gearrin). A testicular cancer scare this offseason had threatened to take all of this away.
Union-Tribune: You only had one professional plate appearance before Andy Green asked you to bat in the sixth inning Tuesday. How did the conversation leading up to that at-bat go?