Yankees reliever Trivino warms up in wrong jersey, changes

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Yankees reliever Lou Trivino received a faucet on his shoulder as he warmed up within the bullpen alerting him he had on the incorrect jersey: the No. 50 belonging to Jameson Taillon as an alternative of his personal 56.

Trivino had pulled off his sweatshirt to throw his pitches on a cool Friday night time on the Coliseum and the issue turned clear. He started to heat in case he was wanted to exchange Wandy Peralta, who surrendered an RBI single to pinch-hitter Dermis García however completed the 2-hour, 50-minute recreation for his third save as New York beat the Oakland Athletics 3-2.

“I don’t know, it occurs,” Trivino mentioned. “… I used to be warming up, I wasn’t even paying consideration.”

A bat boy scurried out with the precise jersey and Trivino made a rapid change.

Who informed him? “I don’t know, it simply occurred,“ mentioned Trivino, traded by the A’s to New York on the deadline together with Frankie Montas.

Trivino laughed all of it off, saying, “It wasn’t the primary time, it’s most likely not the final.”

So he had executed it earlier than? “Oh, yeah, who hasn’t?” he cracked.

Perhaps pull on Aaron Choose’s No. 99 subsequent time for a bit enjoyable? — “yeah,” the right-hander agreed.

Trivino had joked he needed some consideration since he wasn’t enjoying. He received all of it proper.

“I didn’t know that,” Choose mentioned, grinning, “I’ll must get on him.”

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