Chicago Cubs pitcher Pedro Strop celebrates after the last out during the ninth inning in a 5-4 win against the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field, in Chicago on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015. The Cubs won, 5-4. (Nuccio DiNuzzo/Chicago Tribune/TNS via Getty Images)
Cubs manager Joe Maddon made good on his promise to give Pedro Strop a "day at the beach" on Sunday after the reliever bailed Chicago out of a ninth-inning jam Saturday to preserve a 5-4 win.
Before Sunday's game against the Cardinals, Strop's locker was set up with a beach chair, an ice bucket full of beer bottles, a margarita and other beach paraphernalia.
Maddon promised Strop an off day, too.
"I wanted to really make it really emphatic that he was not playing," Maddon said.
Maddon is a TV pitchman for a Chicago-area liquor store chain and was asked if he mixed the margarita that was in front of Strop's locker. He didn't.
"I would have done the bloody mary if I had been given the opportunity," Maddon said. "I'm more of a bloody mary kind of guy, although that's definitely more of a margarita setting."
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