Lucas Giolito’s No-Hit Redemption
The Lead
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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Last Week, Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito pulled off something no other pitcher has done in 2020 when he threw a no-hitter against the Pirates. Today, The Athletic’s James Fegan joins us to discuss Giolito’s early days as a baseball prodigy in Los Angeles, his rise and fall as a top prospect for the Washington Nationals, and how he went from one of the worst pitchers in baseball in 2018 to the White Sox ace.
Read James Fegan’s story about Lucas Giolito: https://theathletic.com/2023401/2020/08/26/white-sox-lucas-giolitos-transformation-grows-more-incredible-with-a-no-hitter/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | Last week, White Sucks right-hander Lucas G. Alito did something no other picture has done |
| 0:10.6 | in 2020. |
| 0:11.6 | A lot of things are popping in. |
| 0:27.0 | I've been working for this type of game for a while now and it's really cool that we |
| 0:32.6 | got it, got it, got it, got it. |
| 0:33.9 | Today, the athletics James Fegan on G. Alito's incredible transformation from one of the worst |
| 0:39.1 | pictures in baseball to White Sucks Ace. |
| 0:42.2 | I think everybody who goes through anything tends to kind of put that in the context of maybe |
| 0:47.9 | this is a necessary step and maybe I wouldn't have been as good as I am if I didn't grow |
| 0:53.6 | through some difficulties. |
| 0:58.1 | From Wondering in the Athletic, I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:00.7 | And I'm Kavita Davidson. |
| 1:02.3 | It's Wednesday, September 2nd and this is a lead. |
| 1:06.3 | The young gamer just had the game of his life. |
| 1:12.3 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:16.5 | There was just something about the emotion and the moment you got to go faster, faster. |
| 1:20.5 | The values of the past don't matter because we've got this now. |
| 1:26.6 | This isn't a story where you interview the athlete in the home. |
| 1:30.7 | It stays with you. |
| 1:36.9 | Hey, it's Matt. |
| 1:37.9 | I'm Senior Producer here on the lead. |
| 1:40.7 | And even though we're all home a lot these days, it still feels like we constantly have |
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