Diver gets the save after Cubs’ Rizzo loses wedding ring
It won’t officially count as an error, unless you’re asking Anthony Rizzo’s wife.
Rizzo’s wedding ring slipped off his finger and into Belmont Harbor last Friday afternoon.
“He’s lost a lot of weight recently and had just washed his hands and was kind of shaking it, and it just flew off,” according to Yohei Yamada, the diver Rizzo reached out to to help find his ring.
Rizzo, who lost 25 pounds in the off-season, was at the gas dock in his sleek, black speed boat when his afternoon went sideways.
He also had to be somewhere and couldn’t stick around, leaving his wife, Emily, to point Yamada in the right direction.
Yamada, known as the go-to guy for such blunders, gave himself slim odds of finding the ring, which sank into the weedy lake bed under 21 feet of water.
Yet, after 90 minutes of searching, he emerged with the ring in his hand.
“There was one little patch of weedless area I was looking in, and it was there,” Yamada said.
Yamada shared a moment of relief with Emily and texted a photo of the ring to her husband. Rizzo’s reply: ‘F--- yes!’
A Cubs spokesman confirmed the nuts and bolts of the story, but Rizzo couldn’t immediately be reached for ring-related comment.
“They’re like the nicest couple in the world,” Yamada said, noting he hung around a few minutes to chat with Emily Rizzo.
The main topic of conversation was Lurie Children’s Hospital. The Rizzos have donated millions to the hospital. Yamada’s daughter, who was born premature seven months ago, has been in and out of the hospital.
Her name is Finn (after her dad’s aquatic footwear).
Rizzo, who returned to the Cubs lineup Wednesday for the team’s final exhibition game after time off to nurse a troubled back, hit a homer in his first at bat.