Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, who famously uses that song as his walk-up music, threw his arms up in the air in mock disgust.
“I used that song because it was Rizzo who kind of took care of me when things weren’t really working my way in Chicago,” Darvish said through his interpreter after the Padres’ 3-1 loss.
Darvish continued his remarkable season in the rematch against his former team, allowing only two runs over seven innings to put his ERA at 2.28 through his first 13 starts with his new team.
But he turned it around in 2019, posting a 3.98 ERA in 178⅔ innings, then reached another level in the pandemic-shortened season.
But what I find is that the fans, the organization, and even the media members there — I had tremendous amount of support to get through my years there.