How Romo and the Rays changed MLB in ’18

On the day he irrevocably altered the game of baseball, Sergio Romo woke up around 10 a.m. in an Anaheim hotel room. Though the analogy may have been imperfect, Romo likened that morning’s wake-up call to the 588 calls to the bullpen that bore his name in the years leading to that moment. It was time to get loose, time to get ready.