Michael King’s first career MLB save picked Aroldis Chapman up in a huge way Thursday night.
After Chapman walked the bases loaded with no outs in the ninth inning — bringing the go-ahead run to the plate — King relieved him and needed just five pitches, all strikes, to secure the“A ton of adrenaline and then just knowing you have to execute,” King said. “It was fun to do.”
After the left-hander had multiple imaging tests and got his knee drained to alleviate the swelling, got through a bullpen session Wednesday without any issues and on Thursday deemed himself ready to go. Boone called Montgomery’s recovery this week a “huge” relief. Though Montgomery was also happy that the ball off Xander Bogaerts’ bat hit him in the leg and not “above the hips,” he called such comebackers “a pitcher’s nightmare.”