“Put your feet up! Feel the wind going through your hair,” Sean Doolittle said. “Life on the open road, you know? The open warning track. There’s nothing like it.”
Trip Morgan is a bit lonelier these days. That’s what happens when you’re one of the Washington Nationals’ eight bullpen cart drivers and none of their relievers will take a ride.
Robert Garcia, a 27-year-old rookie: “I saw the cart drive by and figured it must be an in between innings promotional sort of thing. Honestly, I like the jog. I love it. Walking out there, taking a deep breath, channeling the adrenaline of the park and the situation, I look forward to that moment. Like it’s time to go compete. A drive in wouldn’t do it for me.”
Last September, Steve Cishek, then a 36-year-old veteran, insisted the relievers take the cart for a bit of bullpen bonding . Everyone listened, with Finnegan saying he enjoyed the ride and would consider doing it again. To get his current teammates in the cart, he might need to channel Cishek or Doolittle, the cart’s original and forever champion.
“It is practical as much as anything else,” said Doolittle, who’s rehabbing a knee injury at the Nationals’ facility in West Palm Beach, Fla. “Especially now with the pitch clock, you only have like a minute and a half to get in, get settled, get your warm-up pitches off. Your heart rate is already elevated enough because you’re about to enter a big league game. And in so many places, the bullpen mounds are a little bit different, maybe the height or slope, than the game mound.
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