This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

For a lot of people being a professional baseball player sounds like a total dream job.

I mean you get paid millions of

dollars to play a game but there are downsides like if you have a bad night at

work as a baseball player it's usually in front of 40,000 screaming fans.

This story is about one of those nights in Houston, Texas.

The Toronto Blue Jays were losing to the hometown Astros when they called in pitcher Mike Bolsinger.

That's baseball reporter Ben Ryder.

He covered the game for 15 years as a writer at Sports Illustrated.

Some Major League Baseball players have job security

and $20 million salaries. They're paid huge bonuses just for getting drafted and

their teams have spent years developing them.

Then there are guys like Bolsinger.

I signed for $1,000 with a billion dollar organization, so.

A thousand dollars.

I think it was $660 after taxes. They don't have that much invested in you.

You make jokes about it, it's like a bucket of baseballs for them.

The night Bolsinger came in, he was facing a stacked Astro's lineup.

They had star players like Alex Bregman and Carlos Beltran.

They were a total juggernaut.

Oh yeah, I mean they were unbelievable. From what you see the

runs they were putting up in my head I was like this is the best team in

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