For a couple of hours inside the normally desolate baseball grounds of loanDepot Park, those among us who have long decried the World Baseball Classic as a meaningless and unnecessary bazaar were w…
For a couple of hours inside the normally desolate baseball grounds of loanDepot Park, those among us who have long decried the World Baseball Classic as a meaningless and unnecessary bazaar were watching, and listening, to a compelling piece of rebuttal testimony.
In the bottom of the ninth, with Puerto Rico holding a 5-2 lead, Edwin Diaz came trotting into the game and it looked like most of the 61 games he appeared in a year ago with the Mets: he faced three batters and he struck out three batters. It clinched a spot in the WBC quarterfinals for Puerto Rico and it was electric inside the ballpark.
Look, players can get hurt anywhere, anytime. They can just as easily get hurt playing Grapefruit and Cactus League games. But the fact has always been that the WBC asks participants to play at midsummer intensity at a time when they’re still used to running wind sprints in the outfield after brief five-inning tune-up cameos. And in truth, all the precaution in the world is useless when a player slips into a uniform with his home nation’s name on the front. That’s just human nature.
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