EL PASO, Texas —
Robert Stock strolled into the clubhouse at 2:45 p.m. A hectic travel itinerary had prevented him from picking up a baseball the last three days. It had been four days since he appeared in a game.
The joke among the relievers stirring in the clubhouse upon his return to El Paso on Friday afternoon was that Stock surely going to pitch that night.
Of course he was.
And then he did.
Stock threw two perfect frames in Triple-A El Paso’s 7-4 loss on Friday, bookending an odd odyssey that saw him travel to and from San Francisco and stop in Denver before returning to the Pacific Coast league, all without throwing a pitch in his latest big league promotion.