![]() ![]() Admit it.īichette has had issues defensively, finishing with 23 errors, second-highest among all Major League shortstops behind Javier Baez’s 26. He has carried his team offensively for, gosh, the better part of two months but it’s OK to admit that one of your worst nightmares is Bichette pooching a ground ball or, more likely, sailing a throw over Vladdy’s head. So, who will write themselves large in the best of three AL wild-card series? Some thoughts … It’s just a matter of playing your best baseball when you get there.” This season, Bradley is once again playing for a rookie manager: John Schneider, who has been in charge since the firing of Charlie Montoyo in July. ![]() But you really have to try and treat the game the same.”Ĭora was a rookie manager in 2018. “Physically? You don’t prepare any differently. “You can talk about it and discuss what it might feel like, but nothing can compare to actually seeing it, living it and doing it,” he said. ![]() 381 with three doubles and a homer in that series against Bradley’s Red Sox - have the heftiest post-season pedigrees in the Blue Jays clubhouse, and while they’re available to pass on wisdom, Bradley says words only matter so much. It’s all about the present.”īradley and George Springer - who hit. “Maybe you struck out two times, but if you get the job done when you need to, everybody forgets the other at-bats. “A lot of people get caught up in you have to have as personally amazing game or something like that instead of just focusing on that one, particular moment,” Bradley said. “To be able to come through against the best players in the most important games is what everybody lives for and dreams of … and I was fortunate. “I was put in a position to succeed in some pretty big situations,” said Bradley. Yes, that Steve Pearce, who was chosen World Series MVP in 2018 after the Blue Jays traded him to Boston. But he’s a part of Red Sox – and by extension – baseball history. The game would last 18 innings before the Dodgers won 3-2 - their only win of the series.īradley’s combined post-season average in 2018 was. One of those World Series hits was a homer off Dodgers closer Jansen with two out in the eighth inning of Game 3 that tied the score at 1-1. The Red Sox won the World Series that year, with Bradley - 2-for-12 in the AL Division Series - going 3-for-13 against the Dodgers. The other hit was a bases-clearing double off Cole in Game 2 that gave the Red Sox a 5-4 lead they’d never relinquish en route to a 7-5 win to even the best-of-seven series.īradley drove in nine of the Red Sox’s 29 runs in the ALCS and also had four walks. Two of the hits were homers, including a grand slam off Osuna in the eighth inning of Game 3 to bust open what would turn into an 8-2 Red Sox win. 200 in the 2018 ALCS against the Houston Astros - one of the loudest 3-for-15s in post-season history. Chances are he will play a role as a late-inning defensive replacement … but that doesn’t mean there isn’t another Bradleyesque performance out there, either in this series between Bradley’s Blue Jays and the Seatte Mariners or the Tampa Bay Rays- Cleveland Guardians series.īradley indeed hit. ![]() will not make our ‘Six To Watch’ in the American League wild-card playoff round. “It’s when.”īradley, a 33-year-old outfielder signed on Aug. That was huge … because we were trending in the wrong direction. Four good swings, but he changed the complexion of the ALCS with that double off Cole. “He had four good swings,” Cora said last week. To expand it further, Red Sox manager Alex Cora tosses in a homer that Bradley hit in the subsequent World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers. One double … nine (count ‘em) runs batted in. Jackie Bradley, Jr., had his moments in 2018 when he was named most valuable player in the American League Championship Series as a member of the Boston Red Sox. The post-season is a compilation of moments - an at-bat, an inning, a game and, ultimately a series. ![]()
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