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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Hand-washing is a good thing these days — unless you lose a wedding ring in the process, like Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo did.
It wasn’t the hand-washing that was the problem. It was when he tried to dry his mitts by flinging his hands around that got Rizzo in trouble at the Belmont Harbor gas dock a week ago.
His wedding ring disappeared in the water.
Rizzo called Yohei Yamada, a Chicago diver who says he’s found about a dozen rings for people over the years.
Yamada last Friday took a dive to look through several feet of weeds 20 feet down.
“I thought it was a zebra mussel. A zebra mussel, when they’re dead, looks kind of like a ring.”
It was no mussel. It was Rizzo’s ring, found in about an hour.
“One in a million,” Yamada said. “Most of the time, it takes a lot more work.”
Rizzo, who was not there when Yamada made the find, had lost a lot of weight in recent weeks, so that may have contributed to the ring fling.