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El Duque delivers for Sox

By Buster Olney
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, October 7, 2005

BOSTON -- Orlando Hernandez is listed as 35 years old and is actually four days shy of his 40th birthday, having reset his baseball age after defecting from Cuba in December 1997. But when he threw in relief against the Red Sox on Friday night, age was irrelevant. He pitched with a fastball of a 25-year-old, the breaking ball of a 30-year-old, the guile of an old man and the guts of someone too young to know better. Boston had the bases loaded and nobody out when Hernandez took over with a one ...

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