Ty Wigginton's First Career Save

You hear baseball broadcasters talk a lot about this player or that player delivering in the clutch. Prepare to hear the guys calling Tampa Bay Devil Ray games this year use that phrase about Ty Wigginton, laugh that fake announcery laugh and then regale you with the tale of what Wiggy did on his winter vacation. Marc Topkin of the St. Petersburg Times shows you how it's done:

Infielder Ty Wigginton came through with a lot of big hits for the Devil Rays last season. But that was nothing like the way he delivered during the offseason.

When his wife, Angela, went into intense labor two weeks early, Wigginton ended up delivering their son in the bedroom closet of their new North Carolina home.

There's no word on which glove Wigginton was wearing at the time. He logged 45 games at first base, 43 at second and 34 at third but I'm guessing he went with the larger first baseman's mitt to ensure he made the grab. Unless there's a midwife glove that I don't know about.

Wigginton named the boy Cannon although I don't think he was named after Rex Grossman.

Comments

[extrapolater]

I almost called my kid that, too. Turns out their little Johnsons just LOOK disproportionately large after the birth. Then they go back to normal.

Shrinkage - it gets you from day one.

[The Big Picture]

great find, my man.

[The GNUru]

Hey now, why you gotta pick on Rex Grossman? That's too easy.

[extrapolater]

Gather ye low-hanging fruit while ye may. That's my motto.