 Good morning. I'm Sasha Pfeiffer. Just before a recent independent league baseball game, the Sioux City Explorers learned their starting pitcher was injured. No one else could pitch, so the manager started making calls. He finally got an answer from a politician. 44-year-old Iowa State Senator J.D. Scholten booked it to the park, and he threw 100 pitches. Scholten dedicated his win to all the middle-aged men who still think they can do it. It's Morning Edition.