Why runners aren’t sprinting to third base.
Three-thirteen. Four-twenty-five. Six-fifty-nine. I’ve repeated those three numbers to myself like a mantra. Years go by, and still I remember them, in sequence, whenever prompted. Alone, they stand impressive, but together, they stand immortal. Funnily enough, that’s what makes them so tragic. I didn’t fully comprehend what I was seeing in 2006 when I watched…
¿Fueron los Phillies listos al fichar a Carlos Santana cuando ya tenían a Rhys Hoskins en primera base?