JUPITER, Fla. — A baseball game was going on Sunday afternoon and their teammates were doing baseball things in it when Adam Wainwright, already two starts into his spring training, leaned over in the dugout to ask Jack Flaherty a question.
“Have you played baseball yet this spring?” the vet grinned.
“I was like, ‘Yeah, it’s been a while,’” Flaherty recalled.
After one appearance on the back field and two postponements of his first start, Flaherty had a better answer for Wainwright on Monday afternoon after his first Grapefruit League start of spring training. He played baseball — and it sure went well.