The Boston Globe

Padres’ Matt Waldron brings knuckleball, thoughts of Tim Wakefield into Fenway Park start vs. Red Sox

When Matt Waldron takes the mound for the Padres on Sunday, the shadow of Tim Wakefield will be felt at Fenway Park. Waldron is the only knuckleballer in the big leagues. For the first time since 2019 ...
The New York Times

Tim Wakefield mentored the Padres’ Matt Waldron, who is bringing the knuckleball back to Fenway

SAN DIEGO — Three years ago, inside an apartment in Fort Wayne, Ind., Matt Waldron opened his laptop for a crash course in an endangered art. Tim Wakefield, the most prominent knuckleballer of his ...
The New York Times

It wasn’t vintage Wakefield, but Padres knuckleballer channeled his mentor just the same

BOSTON — In ways so much more than symbolic, the craft and hard work that went into the late Tim Wakefield’s vaunted but unpredictable knuckleball made a return to Fenway Park on Sunday. It was ...