There are a million ways to win a baseball game. But October plot lines don’t get any more incredible than this.
We had One of Those Games on Monday night in Atlanta. One of those October classics that make these Postseason Weird and Wild columns worth writing. It’s possible nobody in Philadelphia will want to read one word of this. But that’s OK. I’m related to lots of people who feel their pain. So let’s begin this National League Division Series Game 2 edition of Weird and Wild by telling you all about … 1. The Braves’ new world Austin Riley and Ronald Acuña Jr.
bopped an inside-the-park homer against the Braves last October. On Monday, he mixed it up with an outside-the-park homer. But that isn’t even the Weird and Wild part. Did you know that Realmuto has now hit a home run in five postseason series in a row? And the list of catchers who have done that is as cool as you’d expect. Here it comes, courtesy of STATS: Series Catcher 6 Jason Varitek 5 Yogi Berra 5 Johnny Bench 5 J.T. Realmuto ALL MAX’D OUT — It was .
This is left over from Game 2 on the AL side of the draw, but it’s too Weird and Wild not to mention. You’ve probably heard that Sunday in Baltimore, Texas’ just became the first player in history to walk five times in a postseason game, right? But no, that’s not the Weird and Wild part. The Weird and Wild part is … Corey Seager has never even walked four times in a regular-season game … and he’s only had two three-walk games in the past six seasons combined.
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