Diamondbacks pitcher Slade Cecconi was on the mound for his MLB debut on Wednesday against the Giants. The 24-year-old quickly picked up the first strikeout of his career, though it certainly wasn’t how he envisioned it going down.
During the first inning of the game, Cecconi was dueling against San Francisco’s Lamonte Wade Jr. In a full count, Cecconi threw an inside fastball that appeared to clip Wade’s hands. The ball then took a painful and unfortunate deflection right into catcher Jose Herrera’s midsection.
After reviewing the play, umpires determined that the ball actually deflected off the tip of Wade's bat and that remarkably, Herrera had caught the ball, making it a strikeout for Cecconi.
