Tucker Barnhart: Before no-hitter, Wade Miley wanted to ‘bang the game’ because of rain
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Wade Miley’s Cincinnati Reds teammates – catcher Tucker Barnhart included – expressed how happy they were for Miley after the first no-hitter of his 11-season Major League Baseball career, which also was Barnhart’s first in his eight MLB seasons.
But among the revelations from Barnhart as he spoke to reporters after Miley’s no-no was that as rain delayed the scheduled start of Friday night’s series opener between the Reds and Cleveland, Miley suggested that it should be canceled – using the baseball jargon “bang the game.”
“Wade was saying that we should bang the game because of the rain from about 6:30 (p.m.) on,” Barnhart laughed. “A lot of weird, funny things happened. But I’m really glad that we didn’t. But everything was working. I think that’s obvious.”
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“I kept coming in, telling everybody they banged it,” Miley said, when asked what he did during the rain delay. “Position players getting pretty frustrated with me, and it’s kinda what I do. But just try to stay loose – not put too much pressure or think too much, just stay loose and see what happens. And then David (Bell) came in and said (first pitch) was at 8:30, and I was trying to get him to go ahead and tell (Mike Moustakas) they banged it. Because Moose gets awful mad at me when I say that, and I was trying to get David on board and he wouldn’t do it. But I’m definitely glad they didn’t bang it.”
Barnhart added – among postgame reactions – that he’s “never really seen an entire team so happy for just one person in my career.”
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