Peter Moylan is a 38-year-old reliever who forged a baseball career after working manual labor and sales jobs in his native Australia. He is a pitcher who has endured two Tommy John surgeries on his right elbow, a torn rotator cuff and labrum in his shoulder and a procedure for a bulging disk in his back. The way he sees it, he is already playing with house money.
His body has been stressed to the limits. His mind has been steeled by years of setbacks. And as he reached for a bag of potato chips inside his locker at Rogers Centre on Wednesday afternoon, pondering the latest chapter, he sat 12 days from concluding his best regular season in at least seven years.