In Colorado, doing a “14er” is a great triumph — using local lingo, that means a person climbed 14,000-plus feet on one of the state’s 58 tallest mountain peaks. But last week, Miles Mikolas achieved his own Colorado “14er,” which indubitably was a valley.
In his start against the Rockies, which lasted 2⅔ innings, Mikolas allowed 14 hits.
“He was just real disappointed about pitching like that,” fellow Cardinals starter Adam Wainwright said. “But we do have a little (season-long) competition on innings pitched and strikeouts and a couple other things. And he walked over to me in the dugout and said: ‘Consider that your early retirement present.’”
