In a series of candid, detailed descriptions shared on social media Wednesday, Adam Wainwright traced what caused his delivery to go haywire in September to a moment in August that at the time seemed like no bother at all.
During a start against Atlanta at Busch Stadium on August 28, Wainwright took a groundball off his left knee. The "comebacker," as he called it on Twitter, came off Austin Riley's bat at 103.5 mph — one of the hardest hits of the game — and after it ricocheted off his knee Wainwright scrambled over to retrieve the ball in front of the mound and whipped to first to get the out.
He believes few of his pitches were ever the same.
