Ex-Dodgers pitcher Eric Gagné to start Ottawa Champions' final regular season game
Now 40, Gagné won Cy Young Award in 2003 after saving 55 games
The Ottawa Champions' regular season comes to an end this afternoon — but not before a former Cy Young Award winner takes the mound at RCGT Park.
Eric Gagné, a bespectacled fireballer who won the award in 2003 after saving 55 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers, will start today's game against the Quebec Capitales.
Now 40, the Montreal-born Gagné last pitched in the major leagues in 2008. Last month, he signed a contract with the Champions to start the team's final game of the regular season.
Look who made it to Ottawa! Eric Gagne out throwing a bullpen with <a href="https://twitter.com/dgrauer20">@dgrauer20</a> before the game. <a href="https://t.co/Nx9DHaYG8H">pic.twitter.com/Nx9DHaYG8H</a>
—@OttawaChampionsCoincidentally, Gagné will be sharing the bullpen Monday afternoon with the winner of the Can-Am League's own equivalent of the Cy Young Award.
Champions' hurler Austin Chrismon, a former Houston Astros draft pick, was named the league's pitcher of the year after going 8-3 with a 2.37 ERA.
Monday's game gets underway at 1:35 p.m. The fourth-place Champions then have one day off before the playoffs begin.