Perez Called Into Emergency Start With Almost No Notice
Martin Perez was asleep when he found out he was starting, signaling an unplanned pitching change that caught the team off guard.
Martin Perez was given virtually no advance notice before making an emergency start, learning of the assignment while waking from a nap. Manager Walt Weiss was alerted by head trainer George Poulis in a frantic, last-minute manner. The chaotic circumstances suggest the originally scheduled starter was a very late scratch. This kind of unplanned pitching change can have meaningful implications for team preparation and bullpen usage.
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