Nick Maton #29 of the Philadelphia Phillies (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
Major League Baseball really went this far with Phillies ‘pitcher’ Nick Maton.
The Philadelphia Phillies had yet another disappointing loss on Monday in a makeup game opposite the Cincinnati Reds at Great American Ball Park.
Holding a two-run lead in the seventh, the bullpen went on to blow its seventh save out of the previous six games. And, with Enyel De Los Santos throwing 37 pitches in the eighth and the Reds scoring a half-dozen runs, manager Joe Girardi turned to infielder Nick Maton to get the final out — and the unthinkable happened.