Sunday wrapup

Bobby Seay’s first major league save came in his 90th big-league appearance, six years after his debut. Yet while he has the game ball and it’s something he’ll cherish, he didn’t want to rank the appearance above all the others he has had this year.

"No, I don’t think so, not in my opinion," he said. "I mean, it’s obviously big for me to get my first save, good to help the team win. But I don’t think it’s the biggest. I think coming in and holding some of those games earlier this year are bigger to me. Even when I pitched in Baltimore and had to come in and soak up some innings, we ended up coming back to win, and I think that was probably bigger, in my opinion."

Seay didn’t even know this qualified as a save situation until Chad Durbin told him after the game.
Leyland gave two reasons for turning to Seay with two outs in the ninth. First, he wanted the lefty-on-lefty situation with power threat Chris Duncan up. Second, he didn’t want to overextend Fernando Rodney after he pitched Saturday night. Had Seay not retired Duncan, Leyland said, Todd Jones would’ve entered to face Yadier Molina.