ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright promised his youngsters he would get a public canine when he retired from baseball.
He didn’t need to. The St. Louis Cardinals introduced the Wainwrights a Lagotto Romagnolo pet all the way through a 35-minute rite earlier than the 42-year-old pitcher’s ultimate recreation with the crew on Sunday. Wainwright’s spouse Jenny named the pet Louie.
The Wainwrights have 4 daughters: Baylie Grace (17), Addison (14), Macy James (11) and Sadee Religion (5) together with 4-year-old son Caleb Adam.
Wainwright went 200-128 with a three.53 ERA in 18 main league seasons, all with the Cardinals. He were given his two hundredth win in in his ultimate pitching look in opposition to Milwaukee on Sept. 18.
Former teammate, pal and longtime catcher Yadier Molina used to be amongst a number of avid gamers collaborating within the rite. Wainwright and Molina have been batterymates in a big league-record 328 video games.
Wainwright used to be now not anticipating Molina and he buried his head in his fingers when Molina got here onto the grassland.
Albert Pujols, Scott Rolen, Ozzie Smith, Chris Chippie, Jason Isringhausen and previous supervisor Tony L. a. Russa have been some of the ex-Cardinals who attended. Chippie, Pujols and Molina made speeches.
“I love you all so much,” an emotional Wainwright advised the sold-out community.
