Late in the most improbable season any of them has ever experienced, as they stormed to the most unlikely pennant in the last decade, as they snatched a victory in the most unexpected place, something entirely foreseeable happened: The Diamondbacks’ best player started playing like it.
Foreseeable and foreseen: As they rode the hotel elevator on the way to Citizens Bank Park Tuesday afternoon, left fielder Tommy Pham turned to stud rookie right fielder Corbin Carroll. “It’s your turn today,” Pham said. A few hours later, as they crossed paths near the bat rack, ace Zac Gallen reminded Carroll, “Hey, man, we don’t need you to be anybody else. Just be yourself.”
And then Carroll, who was 3-for-23 through the National League Championship Series, took charge of Game 7, either scoring or driving in each of Arizona’s runs in a 4–2 victory that sent them to the World Series, which starts Friday against the Rangers.
