Whicker: Washington’s Doolittle picks up saves off the field as well

LOS ANGELES — There are saves and there are holds and there was the moment in 2014 when two cars pulled up into a driveway in Elk Grove, with Sean Doolittle waiting.
Doolittle is a left-handed reliever who now closes games for Washington, but then he was pitching for Oakland. He and Eireann, now his wife, committed themselves to a program called Operation Finally Home, to provide housing for returning veterans.
“There were a bunch of people waiting for them in the neighborhood,&rdquo