Jason Hammel, who had some cramping in his pitching hand before the All Star Break which forced him to leave a game early, got a life altering suggestion from a team doctor.
It isn’t what you think it would be, but it is glorious advice:
“For my cramps, if it’s a chronic thing, [the doctor] said, ‘Potato chips,’ because they have a lot of potassium and obviously the sea salt helps retain water. So I focused on that over the break and ate a lot of potato chips, and I think it turned out pretty well. Potato chip prescription … PCP … that’s what I’m going to try to go with.”
Hammel says he ate them over the break and also munched them between innings in the dugout in Saturday’s 3-1 win over the Texas Rangers.
Hammel took the hill for the Cubs on Saturday against the Rangers, and allowed one run on three hits over six innings, walking one and striking out seven. The Cubs won the game 3-1, and it was just Hammel’s fourth quality start in his last nine outings.
This is awesome. I can now eat potato chips guilt free because they have now been prescribed by a doctor. A Cubs doctor. A doctor for a team who is good. And it obviously worked. That’s what I’m going with. Potato chips have medical benefits. That’s all I need to hear.
