Chicago Cubs designate RHP Jameson Taillon for assignment, recall RHP Andrew Wantz from Triple-A Iowa.
“I can’t really say I’ve ever sat around and fantasized about how I’d like to end my career,” Nolan Ryan told reporters on September 22, 1993. He’s wearing a gray blazer, his shirt unbuttoned at the neck, his head nearly bald: At once he looks old for a ballplayer, and young for an ex-ballplayer. It’s fitting for the exact moment when he stands in between. “But if I had, it certainly would have been with a strong performance in a pennant race, and, I guess, striking out the last hitter I ever faced.”
He did not do that. In fact, in his final start, he failed to retire a single batter—after a soft single to lead off the game, he walked four consecutive batters to allow a run before giving up a home run to journeyman Dan Howitt. After missing one more pitch to Dave Magadan, Ryan signaled the trainers and admitted defeat. The opposing crowd at the Kingdome took to their feet and the 46-year-old acknowledged it with a disgruntled wave. It was later revealed that Ryan, who’d shut out the Angels over seven innings the prior start, had torn a ligament in his elbow.
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