Baseball managers have long memories, and aren’t afraid to use them to tell stories.
Pittsburgh Pirates manager Clint Hurdle had one of those moments Thursday, before the Pirates’ game against the Tampa Bay Rays. While it’s not quite clear why Hurdle spun a yarn about the All-Star Game, he certainly spun a good one, and the Post-Gazette’s Stephen J. Nesbitt wrote it up word for word.
Back in 2008, Hurdle was the National League manager at the All-Star Game. The contest went 15 innings. You would think that would quite annoy the bench, given the need to spread pitchers out over all those frames.