SAN DIEGO • The moment it became clear that his boss, San Diego manager Andy Green, was headed for an inevitable ejection and that he would be managing a game for the first time ever, Mark McGwire felt a familiar sensation ripple through him.
It reminded him of what he felt 15 years ago, when he last played.
“All of a sudden the heartbeat started firing up,” McGwire described Saturday in the Padres’ clubhouse. “I’m going out to the mound for the first time in my life to make a pitching change. There it was.