A different player might have been stressed out in Ty Adcock’s shoes. Summoned to the majors after throwing all of 28 innings in the minors—over half of those in the low minors—with an additional travel wrinkle thrown in to the already short two-day notice he was given to pack his stuff and prepare to meet the big league club, coupled with the already intense situation of making one’s big-league debut, a moment players dream about for years: it would have been understandable for Adcock to come out in front of his friends, family, former and current teammates, and over 23,000 fans, and look a little shaky in his first outing as a Seattle Mariner.
Ty Adcock finds strength in the struggle
