To those that don't know, it was just one inning in a Cactus League game. To reliever Ryan Cook, it was triumph over two years of injuries.
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — The significance went unnoticed by probably 99 percent of the 2,615 fans still in attendance for Wednesday’s Cactus League game at Goodyear Ballpark — an eventual 4-2 victory for the Indians over the Mariners. To them it was just another tall, bearded reliever — and there are a lot of those pitching in spring training — throwing a meaningless inning in a month filled with meaningless innings of games that don’t count and are easily forgotten.