HOUSTON — J.T. Realmuto waited nine years and 1,005 regular season games to play his first World Series game. And when it was over, after he had played one of the handful of best World Series games ever by a catcher, Realmuto could not partake in the postgame spread.
“I don’t think I can chew,” Realmuto says. “My jaw is really sore. But that’s O.K. As long as it’s not my head, I’m good.”
In the sixth inning of World Series Game 1 on Friday, the Phillies catcher took a foul ball off his mask that staggered him as if he had taken a violent punch.
