Nick Castellanos did not play a scheduled baseball game last night in his home town of Miami, surprisingly ending his Iron Man streak of 236 consecutive games played. It came after an argument with manager Rob Thomson following Monday night’s victory over the Marlins in which Castellanos was pulled from the game for a defensive replacement in the 8th inning.
It also came on the same night Thomson appeared to anoint a new closer, Orion Kerkering, giving the hard-throwing right-hander the 9th inning of their 5-2 victory instead of the veteran, Jordan Romano. On Monday night, Romano got the 7th inning, Matt Strahm the 8th, and Kerkering the 9th.