"It was that way for Brian Doyle, who stepped in for Willie Randolph at second base what feels like 100 years ago and hit .438 in the 1978 World Series against the Dodgers. Of course Al Weis, another second baseman, became an unlikely home run hitter for the Mets in the ’69 World Series. And that is just the short list."
I totally have a much bigger list of unlikely NY baseball playoff heroes and that list is easily accessible to me.
I just don't want to share it with you at this time because I wouldn't want to bore you.
There was also, you know ... that guy? ... you know the one ... the guy with the thing? Yes, exactly. That's who I was thinking of. Oh, man, remember when he did that?
"Daniel Murphy, second baseman, is a better hitter and a better ballplayer than Weis was, or Doyle. But it still happens to him now. Does it ever. He has the time of his baseball life, out of the Dodgers series and right into this 2-0 lead in the National League Championship Series against the Cubs. Just like that the Mets are two games from the World Series. And half-a-dozen from winning it all."
The HRs for Murphy are a surprise for sure, but it's not as if he's the #8 hitter.
Those kinds of short-sample-size outbursts happen. They never don't happen.
"But it has been that kind of October for his son. Murphy has made it, finally, to games like the ones he is playing now, after all the empty Octobers in his career. If you are Murphy, and all you’ve ever done is watch somebody else play these games, you had to wonder what it would be like on baseball’s bright, loud, great stage. All athletes, no matter how confident, no matter how strong their faith in themselves and God, wonder what kind of game they will have when the lights get turned up."
Oh, yeah, that God comment reminds me.
Personally? I don't let him off the hook for being an anti-homosexual bigot.
So that's another reason to root for the Cubs.
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