Before he took the mound in Tuesday night’s NL Wild Card Game and tossed three innings in relief without allowing a run, Stephen Strasburg had not pitched in relief since he was a freshman at San Diego State University in 2007.
He did just fine, however, throwing a total of 34 pitches after replacing Max Scherzer in the sixth inning of what ended up being a 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
“I mean it is something I haven’t done in a really long time and it is what it is,” Strasburg told reporters after it was announced that even though he’d pitched on Tuesday, he would be on the mound for Game 2 of the NLDS with the Los Angeles Dodgers.