Home runs are bolts of lightning. They are slot machines that pay, winning scratch-off lottery tickets and a parking meter with time left on it. Sudden gratification. A jolt you don’t see coming.
Unless it was the game-tying, jaw-dropping home run Texas shortstop Corey Seager hit in the bottom of the ninth inning in World Series Game 1 Friday night. It was two days in the making. It took a perfect storm of preparation for this bolt to strike.
Seager’s home run made possible another claim by teammate Adolis García that this postseason is his personal property, the way 2011 was for David Freese and 2013 was for David Ortiz. García homered in the 11th inning, his fifth straight postseason game with a homer, to beat Arizona, 6–5, in a game the Diamondbacks should have had in their back pocket.
