BREAKING NEWS: Baseball from final out of 2019 World Series still in one piece. Yan Gomes, who stuck it in his back pocket after Daniel Hudson’s swinging K ended Game 7, still has the ball at his home. Not going to cut it in half. I repeat: Not going to cut it in half...
Shockingly, no one asked Daniel Hudson about this when he spoke with reporters on a Zoom call on Monday afternoon, but when Washington Nationals’ catcher Yan Gomes got his opportunity to speak with the media on Tuesday, an intrepid reporters asked the veteran backstop if it, the baseball, was still in one piece, or if he’d (Gomes had) decided to cut it in half and share it (with ‘it’ being, again, the ball).