Monday, October 11, 2010

Eric Hinske's Career

One of the announcers last night noticed an interesting triviality - journeyman corner IF/OF Eric Hinske has played in the last three World Serieses for three different teams.

I never thought about it before, but now I can recall: the Yankees acquired him from the Pirates last year, he played significant time in the outfield for the 08 Rays, and he picked up a few at bats for the 07 Red Sox.

When he hit that home run last night to put his Braves in the lead, it looked like he might instill just enough magic to get to the Fall Classic for his fourth year in a row.

Then the Braves' Billy Wagner-less bullpen fell apart, and their Martin Prado-less infield made a key error and the Braves lost the game. It's sad, but this was a really good team that suffered some tough personnel losses that made them just a pretty good team. Certainly not good enough to heat the Phillies and possibly not even good enough to beat the Giants.

We could find out right now as Derek Lowe faces off against Madison Bumgarner. Or rather I'll find out later tonight after I get off the plane back to.LA I'm just now boarding. Ah the marvels of modern technology!
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