From An Electrician's Apprentice To A Major League No-Hitter
The Lead
Wondery
3.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
A year ago, Tyler Gilbert was a minor league castoff who had returned to his hometown to train with his high school baseball coach and to work with his dad, who is an electrician. Then, this past weekend, against all odds, Gilbert threw a no-hitter for the Arizona Diamondbacks in his first major league start -- a feat that has been accomplished by only three other people in history. Zach Buchanan, who covers the Diamondbacks for The Athletic, joins us to discuss how Gilbert's incredible 180 came about, where he goes from here, and the scout who saw something special in Gilbert where others did not.
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https://theathletic.com/2771005/2021/08/15/there-was-never-a-doubt-how-diamondbacks-rookie-tyler-gilbert-went-from-nobody-to-no-hitter/
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| 0:45.0 | 17-1. If there is a white towel to be tossed by the Diamondbacks, it would have been tough a long time ago. |
| 1:01.0 | For most of the season, the Arizona Diamondbacks have been not great. |
| 1:06.0 | But on Saturday, the Debacks produced one of the feel good stories of the year when Rookie Pitcher Tyler Gilbert, |
| 1:18.0 | who nearly left baseball a year ago, through a no-hitter in his debut as a Major League starter. |
| 1:25.0 | Center Field, Barthay, and the No-Hitter! |
| 1:34.0 | Tyler Gilbert has thrown in no hitter. It is first career Major League start. |
| 1:40.0 | Today, the athletic exec you can in who covers the Diamondbacks joins us to talk about how Gilbert went from being an electrician's apprentice to being a history-making major leager |
| 1:50.0 | and the scout who believed in Gilbert even as he was fading into obscurity. From one degree in the athletic, I'm under Skeleton. |
| 1:57.0 | It's Wednesday, August 18th, and this is The Lead. |
| 2:04.0 | So, Zach, as we speak here, the Arizona Diamondbacks are 38 and 81, which puts them dead last in Major League Baseball. |
| 2:12.0 | So tell me, what words come to mind when I ask you to describe their 2021 season? |
| 2:17.0 | It's like a perfect storm of everything going wrong and once. There are some teams that are bad that are kind of bad on purpose because the rebuilding, the Diamondbacks are not one of them. |
| 2:27.0 | So it's just been calamities left and right. They've seemingly had every important player injured some of them multiple times. |
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