ARLINGTON, Tex. — The final pitch of Bartolo Colon’s night was a batting-practice fastball delivered a few hours too late: a 2-0, 88-mile-per-hour heater that meandered over the middle of the plate.
Where it landed — on the grass berm beyond the center-field wall — was a reasonably predictable outcome.
Still, it was rather poetic that the blast came off the bat of Gleyber Torres.
If Colon, who will turn 45 on Thursday, is hanging on to the vestiges of his professional career — getting by with one pitch (a fastball) and a belly full of guile — Torres, 21, is continuing to assert his arrival.