After years of injuries, Brendan Beck makes major league debut with Yankees at age 27
Brendan Beck received a call from his minor league manager, telling him to meet in the hotel lobby. “You always want it to happen and you think it’s going to happen, but it’s when it actually does, it’s kind of just still a dream,” Beck said Thursday after tossing three innings for the New York Yankees in his major league debut, a 9-2 win over Texas. Beck learned Wednesday before Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's 11 a.
m. game at Worcester that a call-up was possible but not definite, getting word from manager Shelley Duncan, pitching coach Spencer Medick and bullpen coach Pete Larson.
NEW YORK (AP) — Brendan Beck received a call from his minor league manager, telling him to meet in the hotel lobby. A short while later, the 27-year-old pitcher hopped into a car for a ride to the big leagues. “You always want it to happen and you think it’s going to happen, but it’s when it actually does, it’s kind of just still a dream,” Beck said Thursday after tossing three innings for the New York Yankees in his major league debut, a 9-2 win over Texas .
“Now it’s something that I’ve done and I can picture that moment and being out on the field and out there with the guys and take that back and now really get to work. ” Beck learned Wednesday before Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's 11 a. m.
game at Worcester that a call-up was possible but not definite, getting word from manager Shelley Duncan, pitching coach Spencer Medick and bullpen coach Pete Larson. Beck had to cope with the uncertainty. “Just a lot of sitting around and trying to keep my mind distracted,” he said.