PHOENIX — It’s better — or funnier, maybe — because Vance Worley was pitching, and you see, his name is kind of inherently silly, and he’s the kind of guy you might remember from the early 2010s Philadelphia Phillies, when he was known as “The Vanimal.”
That guy — with his rec specs and a uniform that would look like the costume designer phoned it in if it were worn by the opposition in a teen sports movie — struck out Mike Trout (Mike Trout!!!) swinging on a 90 mph sinker that caught a whole lot of the box in the very center of the digitally rendered strike zone grid on MLB Gameday.