DENVER —The wait lasted seven years, three weeks and, in the end, one final half-inning. On Friday night, Ryan Ward was on-deck at the start of Triple-A Oklahoma City’s game in Albuquerque when he was called back to the dugout at the last second. There was news for him, he was told. But he’d have to wait until the team’s manager, Scott Hennessey, got back from coaching third base at the end of the inning. “I was getting smirks from people on the bench,” Ward said with a smile. “People had a