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San Francisco Giants pitcher Logan Webb made his first Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 2024. Unfortunately, his appearance during the game didn’t go very well.
Of the 11 pitchers the National League put on the mound during the All-Star Game, only Logan Webb and Hunter Greene allowed any runs in a game won by the American League 5 to 3.
Webb’s inning of work was by far the worst by a National League pitcher though. He gave up three hits, a walk and three earned runs.
Pretty uncharacteristic for a guy who is now 12-9 with a 3.46 ERA and leading all of Major League Baseball with 189.2 innings pitched.
As it turns out, however, Logan Webb had a pretty solid excuse for not pitching well in the All-Star Game (and it wasn’t as he initially said, because he had to come out of the bullpen instead of starting the game): he was hungover AF.
Webb made this revelation this week during an appearance on The Chris Rose Rotation.
“The best part was the night before the All-Star Game,” Webb told Rose about his experience at the Midsummer Classic. “I got to watch the Home Run Derby and hang out with these guys. It was probably one of the more hungover days I’ve been, uh, the day of the All-Star Game. And I take responsibility for that. I was having a blast, you know? It was a cool experience.
“I was watching the Derby, they had a post-game players’ celebration, a party for the players and their families. It was in the middle of the Cowboys stadium. Lil Jon is DJing. It’s free alcohol. I just enjoyed it.
“I didn’t enjoy it when my wife woke me up at 7 in the morning and said, ‘Hey, I got to get my makeup done right now, and I was like, ‘Oh no, this is going to be a long day.’ And it was was a long day. It was a long day.”
Webb continued, “It was was a tough start to the day, it was was a tough start to the day. And it was hot, it was hot in Texas.
“So we’re walking we get to the red carpet and they get us in this tent and in the tent there’s a lot of us in there. And it was a hundred, it was probably over a hundred, and I thought I was going to throw up walking down the carpet and that was not that wasn’t a fun feeling.”
But wait, it gets worse.
“Now I know I if I do ever make a future All-Star team and I’m going to pitch in it to just relax the night before. Enjoy it, but don’t enjoy it too much,” Webb continued.
“Because I’m warming up. I’m throwing in the third inning. So me and Max Fried, we’re trying to, he was pitching the second, I was pitching the third, and we’re kind of trying to figure out what, okay, how are we going to do this? So we warmed up before, like, we say tip our cap before, and then we kind of get out of the line. We’re like, all right, let’s go warm up.
“And I warm up and I sit down for like 20 minutes, 25 minutes, and I start throwing again on the mound. And I was excited, right? I was nervous, I was excited, I had a lot of Red Bulls, I got Tylenol, I’m trying to get the hangover out of me. I think I wasted all my good pitches in the bullpen. It was all I had. I just I wasted all of them.
“And then I go from the bullpen and I jog out to the mound and only thing I’m thinking of is, don’t throw up, don’t throw up, don’t throw up, don’t throw up, don’t throw up. And it’s a long, long jog. It’s a long jog and I think my first pitch almost didn’t make it to Will Smith. I would have felt real bad about that.
“So yeah, it was an experience. But like I said, definitely, definitely, definitely got to take it easy next time.”