“Player Wears Wrong Jersey”
Not himself: The Texas infield huddled behind the pitcher's mound and watched with collective amusement as a man wearing Kason Gabbard's No. 30 jersey warmed up. They laughed because the pitcher wasn't Gabbard, but was instead Darren O'Day, who had been claimed on waivers from the Mets in the morning and arrived at Toronto's Rogers Centre an inning before he entered the game.
O'Day's transaction was processed so suddenly, and he arrived so late, that Texas didn't have a jersey ready for him to wear. So the equipment guy searched the trunks and found a No. 30 with Gabbard's name on the back. No matter. Gabbard, who's in the minor leagues right now, doesn't need it. Just as the slipper fit Cinderella, the jersey fit the ballplayer.
Not himself: The Texas infield huddled behind the pitcher's mound and watched with collective amusement as a man wearing Kason Gabbard's No. 30 jersey warmed up. They laughed because the pitcher wasn't Gabbard, but was instead Darren O'Day, who had been claimed on waivers from the Mets in the morning and arrived at Toronto's Rogers Centre an inning before he entered the game.
O'Day's transaction was processed so suddenly, and he arrived so late, that Texas didn't have a jersey ready for him to wear. So the equipment guy searched the trunks and found a No. 30 with Gabbard's name on the back. No matter. Gabbard, who's in the minor leagues right now, doesn't need it. Just as the slipper fit Cinderella, the jersey fit the ballplayer.
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