After Monday’s game, Jake Barrett took home one of the baseballs he threw in his MLB debut and the lineup card from the Arizona Diamondbacks' Opening Day loss.
The mementos couldn’t have arrived at a more appropriate place – his childhood bedroom in Mesa, where he still lives with his mother.
He is, after all, the first player drafted by the franchise to have spent his entire high school and college careers in Arizona and then play for the Diamondbacks.
“I’ll probably end up framing that and putting it in my mom’s house,” Barrett said.
The 24-year-old right-handed relief pitcher completed his historic hometown journey with a scoreless inning of relief in the top of the fifth in the D-Backs' 10-5 loss to the Colorado Rockies.