If there's ever anyone to be locked in a room with, it might as well be with someone known as "Mr. Baseball."
Bob Uecker made sure nobody lost their cool in the Milwaukee Brewers radio booth Wednesday when a group that included fellow broadcasters Joe Block and Jeff Levering, longtime engineer Kent Summerfield and Uecker's assistant, Mary Burns, found themselves trapped for several innings by a broken lock on their press box door.
"People who are listening to the ballgame, I know what you're thinking," Uecker said during the broadcast, as reported by Adam McCalvy on mlb.com. "He's ready for the home. He's cooked. It's finally happened. He's seeing ladders and doors without handles."
As the game went along, fans were treated to play-by-play of the Brewers' game against the Los Angeles Dodgers and of the crew of handymen who stationed a ladder on the loge level of Miller Park and climbed into the booth to remove the door from its hinges.
Andrew Gruman of Fox Sports Wisconsin posted a photo of the ladder leading into the booth and quipped, "Is Uecker going to climb down?"
After the Dodgers made their final out in the seventh inning, Block told listeners, "We're not going anywhere. You do the same."
Approximately 10 minutes after Gruman's tweet, McCalvy sent another tweet with a picture of the door off its hinges. "Bob Uecker is free, folks. Now he's overseeing construction," McCalvy tweeted.
No sense waiting
Minnesota Twins outfielder Eddie Rosario hit a home run on the first pitch he saw of his major-league career Wednesday night against the Oakland Athletics.
Rosario, who was called up from Class AAA Rochester on Monday, led off the third inning by sending a pitch from Scott Kazmir into the left-field seats.
The rookie smiled as he rounded the bases, sprinted into the dugout and was promptly received by the silent treatment from his teammates. But it didn't take long for the Twins' bench to stand up and start giving high-fives.
Rosario is the 118th major-league player to hit a home run in his first at-bat and the 29th to do it on the first pitch. The last player to hit a home run on his first pitch was Pittsburgh's Sterling Marte on July 26, 2012.
He is the 13th Twins player to hit a home run in his debut, joining players such as Gary Gaetti, Kent Hrbek and Tim Laudner.
Rich mistake
Two wrongs don't make a right, but one certainly did.
Asher Conniff of Brooklyn, N.Y., 25, registered for the wrong poker tournament -- he clicked on the wrong tournament while applying online -- then wound up winning the World Poker Tour World Championship in Atlantic City, N.J., to the tune of $973,683.
The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa wouldn't let him out of the mistake, so he had to back out of a European family vacation.
"[Mom] wasn't too upset," Conniff told the New York Daily News. "She was happy I was going to play, and she's super-ecstatic now."
Sports quiz
Bob Uecker was part of the cast of which popular 80s television sitcom?
Answer
Uecker played George Owens on Mr. Belvedere, which ran for six seasons.
Sports on 05/08/2015