Dale Torborg waited three years for the bus.
The White Sox's roving strength and conditioning coordinator wasn't quite sure what he was looking for that morning in 1997 when it chugged into the Sox spring training complex in Sarasota, Fla., stuffed with players from the Twins' Class A Florida State League affiliate.
An apology, perhaps.
An explanation, maybe.
A fight, even.
But he knew who he was looking for — Tom Mott, the man who shattered Torborg's left orbital bone and broke his professional baseball aspirations in 1994 when he threw a fateful pitch that hit Torborg in the face during a minor-league game in Tennessee.