Rick Helling
Rick Helling
Richard Allen Hellingis a former Major League Baseball pitcher...
hard hope leagues opportunity time win
It's hard to win in the big leagues when you're not in the big leagues. I kind of had to bide my time and hope that the opportunity would happen.
amount entire fastball good stayed thrown today
That was probably the least amount of curveballs I've thrown in my entire career. I had a pretty good cutter today and I was locating my fastball pretty well, so I stayed with that all day.
grateful hard hard-work last opportunity pay work
More than anything, I'm grateful that I got the opportunity again. It made all the hard work and everything I put in over the last two years pay off.
fastball good locate
It was a good day. My fastball I was able to locate and keep them off-balance.
bit build longer mound thrown
It will be longer than that, though. I haven't thrown off a mound for more than a week, so it will take a little bit to build back up.
drive excuse walks
The walks drive me crazy. There's no excuse for that.
career happy home life perfectly rest stunk
If I stunk after a month, I was going to go home and be perfectly happy with my career and live the rest of my life as a dad.