23-10-2016 05:42 via ohio.com

Former RubberDucks and Aeros players make it big with Indians

It was a humid July afternoon in 2015 and the skinny lefty on the mound at Canal Park was sweating along with everyone else.Ryan Merritt had thrown 77 pitches for the RubberDucks and was on the verge of a no-hitter in the first game of a doubleheader against Reading’s Fightin Phils.The baby-faced Texan reared back, stuck his tongue through his chewing gum as if to blow a bubble and unfurled his 78th. Crack! The batter lifted a lazy fly ball to the center fielder. Out!Peter Nauman, a furnit
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