MLB: Tigers-Allrounder plays in one game on all nine positions

Andrew Romine from the Detroit Tigers immortalized himself in the history books of the MLB on Saturday.The all-rounder was only the fifth player in the season’s penultimate game against the Minnesota Twins in a game in all nine positions.

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Since 2000, no player in the MLB has been spinning through all nine positions – Outfield, Infield, Catcher and Pitcher – in one game.The 31 year old, versatile novel, had the idea together with Tigers manager Brad Ausmus in mind for several years.But it was only on Saturday that the perfect opportunity arose, especially since the Tigers were already out of the playoff race and the Twins had the wildcard game for sure.

So Romine started in the left field and spun through the outfield in the first three innings before moving on to third in the fourth inning.In the fifth inning he marked the shortstop, then the second base – and in the seventh inning he tried his hand at catchering in four at-bats for the first time in his career.

After the Twins scored a run and Romine couldn’t catch a pitch, which sent an opponent to second base, this experiment was finished again, it went back to second base for him.

In the eighth inning, he was then allowed to play as a pitcher, for the fourth time in his career, even though there were only 2.1 innings altogether.He fought against Twins-Slugger Miguel Sano but quite brave, a pitch even reached 88 miles on the Radar Gun.Sano finally hit a harmless ball to third base.In front of his wife and mother, Romine was allowed to go to the first base and finish the game.

Now, along with Bert Campaneris, Cesar Tovar, Scott Sheldon and Shane Halter, he is the fifth player to succeed in this feat,”I’m just happy that we won,”Romine said after the match,”I’ll probably only realize it later.I’m relieved, happy, everything together.It was a lot of fun.”

In the defensive, Romine was challenged five times and did his job without any problems when the balls came in his direction.By the way, as a hitter he was twice on Base (Single, Walk).

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