Ask Tanner Scott about his origin story as a pitcher, and he’s quick to point out one key detail about where his journey began:
“It no longer exists.”
Last spring, Notre Dame College announced it would be closing its doors due to significant financial challenges after more than a century of academic instruction. Eleven years prior, its baseball team had rostered a hard-throwing lefty who went on to become the only big leaguer in school history.
Today, that hard-throwing lefty is the closer for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the defending World Series champions whose presence in the sport’s global landscape is more powerful than ever.