TORONTO —
This is a big deal for Cal Quantrill.
To make the drive — about 45 minutes, if the time is right — along Highway 401 to the home he grew up in, to see friends and family in the tiny town of Port Hope on the north shore of Lake Ontario.
To pitch for the Padres against the team he knows so well in the stadium where his dad pitched for six of his 13 major league seasons and most of the first 6½ years of Cal’s life.
He was going to make this happen.