The St. Louis Cardinals have become the latest MLB club to face a coronavirus outbreak amongst the team’s traveling party. With their weekend series against the Brewers already postponed and the team expecting more positive tests, the Cardinals players have been quarantining in their Milwaukee hotel rooms.
But, apparently, that hasn’t stopped Cardinals pitcher Jack Flaherty from looking to stay sharp in between starts.
Flaherty took to Twitter on Sunday and shared a photo from his hotel room, and we could see that the Cardinals pitcher placed his mattress up against the hotel wall. It was all set up for an impromptu bullpen session. He even joked about Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly’s poor aim during quarantine.
Let’s not pull a Joe Kelly and miss pic.twitter.com/exgkqNlE4H
— Jack Flaherty (@Jack9Flaherty) August 2, 2020
Flaherty posted a video to his Instagram Story about having some baseballs ready for the bullpen session.
“Let’s see what happens,” he said.
But we never saw what actually happened.
And sure, throwing a baseball against a hotel mattress is probably poor hotel etiquette, but it’s been over a week since his last start. He can’t leave his hotel room.
Desperate times call for desperate measures — just don’t break anything.
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