We have questions, A's reliever Brad Ziegler has answers

Baseball doesn't have an award for the feel-good story of the year, but if it did, A's reliever Brad Ziegler would have a hammerlock on the honor. I mean, just try to come up with a better baseball story than his. Four years ago he nearly died in a Modesto hospital after being drilled in the head by a wicked line drive off the bat of current Giants outfielder Fred Lewis in a minor league game. Two years ago Ziegler ditched his conventional delivery and starter's job to become a reliever with a side-winding delivery that's just north of submarine. Last January Ziegler was hit in the head again, this time in a mishap while playing catch. Then this season he started in Triple-A Sacramento, morphed into a record-setting big-league reliever and became the A's closer. Ziegler threw 39 consecutive scoreless innings to open his career. That set a modern (since 1900) Major League record to start a career, the American League mark for consecutive scoreles...