Jason Heyward remembers looking around at his teammates as the rain came down in Cleveland – everyone at a loss for words, dumbfounded, feeling the weight of the lead they’d just forfeited – and knowing he had to say something.
“I’ve got to remind these dudes of how I see them,” recounted Thursday, “Because they’re amazing. They’re gladiators. And through every up, every down in that season, it didn’t matter; we always had an answer.”
