Jameson Taillon stood taller and taller as the night unfolded, the moment making the 6-foot-5 starter seem 7 feet tall.
There had been a few scares from Angels batters throughout the night, though none as profound as Shohei Ohtani’s shot up the middle in the seventh, fielded expertly by Isiah Kiner-Falefa, who had been shifted over to the second-base side of the bag. Kiner-Falefa made the backhand play on the run and threw across his body from his original shortstop position, bouncing it in there to DJ LeMahieu to get the out.
And then history went poof in the night. Jared Walsh led off the eighth by hitting Taillon’s 0-2 four-seamer to the right of a sliding Kiner-Falefa, who couldn’t come up with the backhand. Walsh turned it into a double, and the crowd groaned before breaking into applause. Two batters later, after tweaking his ankle covering first, Taillon surrendered an RBI single to Kurt Suzuki.
Once the No. 2 overall pick in the 2010 draft, a Texas high school sensation selected after Bryce Harper and before Manny Machado, Taillon had overcome a ton to get to this point.He had endured not one, but two Tommy John surgeries on his elbow, and neither was the most alarming medical procedure of his career. One night in the spring of 2017 he felt some swelling in his testicle. Cancer, the doctor told him. After the surgery he posted on Twitter, “Today I lost a piece of my ‘manhood.
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